Speech data · Egypt

Egyptian Arabic banking call-center speech data

Banking customer-service calls the way Egyptian customers make them: card blocks, transfers, fraud reports, loan and account enquiries, in Cairene, Alexandrian and Upper Egyptian (Saʿidi) Arabic. Every call is transcribed word for word, tagged with what the caller wants, and checked by several native Egyptian reviewers.

Specification

Dialect
Cairene, Alexandrian and Upper Egyptian (Saʿidi) Arabic, with the English words customers mix in
Calls
Customer and agent, two speakers per call: card blocks, transfers, fraud reports, loan and account enquiries
Audio
8 kHz telephone or 16 kHz wideband, 16-bit WAV, mono or one channel per speaker
Speakers
Native Egyptian speakers, balanced across gender and age groups
Annotation
Verbatim transcript, timestamps, speaker turns and gender; intents such as block card, dispute a transaction, transfer status, loan enquiry
Quality check
Every transcript is cross-checked by several native Egyptian reviewers

Example of the data

  1. Agent00:01

    أهلًا بحضرتك، معاك منى من خدمة العملاء، أقدر أساعدك إزاي؟

    Hello, this is Mona from customer service. How can I help you?

  2. Customer00:04

    أهلًا، عندي مشكلة في البطاقة، بقالي يومين بحاول ومش نافع.

    Hi, I have a problem with my card. I’ve been trying for two days and it isn’t working.

  3. Agent00:09

    تمام، ممكن الرقم القومي لو سمحت؟

    OK, may I have your national ID number, please?

  4. Customer00:12

    حاضر، بس عايز أعرف ليه حصل كده؟

    Sure, but I want to know why this happened.

What it is used for

  • Speech recognition for Egyptian calls

    Train and evaluate ASR that hears Egyptian Arabic, not only Modern Standard Arabic.

  • Banking voice bots

    Let customers block a card, check a transfer or report fraud by voice, in their own dialect.

  • Fraud and complaint detection

    Spot fraud reports and complaints in calls as they happen and route them fast.

  • Agent quality monitoring

    Score calls automatically against your service standards.

Questions

Which varieties of the dialect are included?

Cairene, Alexandrian and Upper Egyptian (Saʿidi) Arabic. Tell us the regions and the mix your product needs.

Which banking intents are labelled?

Intents such as block card, dispute a transaction, transfer status, loan enquiry, plus sentiment and named entities on request, or your own label set.

Can I hear samples first?

Yes. Request samples with the form on this page and we will send them with the full specification.

Can it be used in a commercial product?

Yes. The data is prepared for training and evaluating commercial AI systems, under a licence agreed with you.

Tell us what your model needs.

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