We introduce ArVoice, a multi-speaker Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) speech corpus with diacritized transcriptions, intended for multi-speaker speech synthesis, and can be useful for other tasks such as speech-based diacritic restoration, voice conversion, and deepfake detection. ArVoice comprises: (1) a new professionally recorded set from six voice talents with diverse demographics, (2) a modified subset of the Arabic Speech Corpus; and (3) high-quality synthetic speech from two commercial systems. The complete corpus consists of a total of 83.52 hours of speech across 11 voices; around 10 hours consist of human voices from 7 speakers. We train three open-source TTS and two voice conversion systems to illustrate the use cases of the dataset. The corpus is available for research use.
@article{arxiv.2505.20506,
title = {ArVoice: A Multi-Speaker Dataset for Arabic Speech Synthesis},
author = {Hawau Olamide Toyin and Rufael Marew and Humaid Alblooshi and Samar M. Magdy and Hanan Aldarmaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.20506},
year = {2025}
}
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Accepted at INTERSPEECH 2025 The dataset is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/MBZUAI/ArVoice