MyVoice: Arabic Speech Resource Collaboration Platform

TL;DR

MyVoice is a collaborative crowdsourcing platform for collecting and validating large-scale Arabic speech datasets, focusing on dialectal diversity and quality assurance to support speech technology development.

Contribution

It introduces a flexible, role-switching platform with integrated quality control for creating and sharing Arabic speech resources, enhancing dialectal speech technology research.

Findings

Successful collection of diverse Arabic speech data

Effective quality assurance filtering system

Facilitated community collaboration in speech data gathering

Abstract

We introduce MyVoice, a crowdsourcing platform designed to collect Arabic speech to enhance dialectal speech technologies. This platform offers an opportunity to design large dialectal speech datasets; and makes them publicly available. MyVoice allows contributors to select city/country-level fine-grained dialect and record the displayed utterances. Users can switch roles between contributors and annotators. The platform incorporates a quality assurance system that filters out low-quality and spurious recordings before sending them for validation. During the validation phase, contributors can assess the quality of recordings, annotate them, and provide feedback which is then reviewed by administrators. Furthermore, the platform offers flexibility to admin roles to add new data or tasks beyond dialectal speech and word collection, which are displayed to contributors. Thus, enabling collaborative efforts in gathering diverse and large Arabic speech data.