Transcription Guidelines for the Qatari Arabic Corpus (QCA) draft created by Oct. 19, 2011. Fatima Abdulrahman, Revised by Mohamed Elmahdy, May 28, 2013. Segmentation Segmentation should be done of 10 seconds maximum for each segment (delimited by breath, pause, etc.) Segmentation should be continuous through the whole final, in other words, the end of one segment should be the start of the next segment. There should be no gaps between segments. Transcription Conventions: Transcription should be typed in Arabic. Transcription should be faithful to the audio and not to what is correct or supposed to be or sound like. Diacritic marks will be written in all cases. Stressed and emphasized words should be between { }. Truncated words should be written truncated exactly as pronounced. Differentiate between the different cases for Hamza ( ). أ ، إ ، آ ، ا Alef Maksura (ى) should not be written as "ي" and vice versa. In the tier of speaker name; the name, and the gender: [Male] or [Female] should be included. If the speaker name is not known, a unique ID is assigned to that speaker. The identity of the speaker should be included in the formality tier. Regarding the Teh Marbuta; the two dots will be added without diacritics if the [t] is not pronounced. If it is pronounced [t], it should be transcribed with a diacritic mark. English utterances must be written both in Arabic and English as << Arabic >> (English) ]untrans[ is used to indicate segments that are difficult to transcribe. The following table shows the non-standard Arabic letters that are used to indicate Arabic sounds and how they should be
Transcription Guidelines for the Qatari Arabic Corpus (QCA) draft created by Fatima Abdulrahman, Oct. 19, 2011. Revised by Mohamed Elmahdy, May 28, 2013. Segmentation Segmentation should be done of 10 seconds maximum for each segment (delimited by breath, pause, etc.) Segmentation should be continuous through the whole final, in other words, the end of one segment should be the start of the next segment. There should be no gaps between segments. Transcription Conventions: Transcription should be typed in Arabic. Transcription should be faithful to the audio and not to what is correct or supposed to be or sound like. Diacritic marks will be written in all cases. Stressed and emphasized words should be between { }. Truncated words should be written truncated exactly as pronounced. Differentiate between the different cases for Hamza ( أ ، إ ، آ ، ا ). Alef Maksura (ى) should not be written as "ي" and vice versa. In the tier of speaker name; the name, and the gender: [Male] or [Female] should be included. If the speaker name is not known, a unique ID is assigned to that speaker. The identity of the speaker should be included in the formality tier. Regarding the Teh Marbuta; the two dots will be added without diacritics if the [t] is not pronounced. If it is pronounced [t], it should be transcribed with a diacritic mark. English utterances must be written both in Arabic and English as << Arabic >> (English) ]untrans[ is used to indicate segments that are difficult to transcribe. The following table shows the non-standard Arabic letters that are used to indicate Arabic sounds and how they should be
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