Speech data · Qatar

Qatari Arabic government services call-center speech data

Calls to government service centres the way Qatari customers make them: appointments, permits, application status, fees and documents, in urban and Bedouin Qatari Arabic. Every call is transcribed word for word, tagged with what the caller wants, and checked by several native Qatari reviewers.

Specification

Dialect
urban and Bedouin Qatari Arabic, with the English words customers mix in
Calls
Customer and agent, two speakers per call: appointments, permits, application status, fees and documents
Audio
8 kHz telephone or 16 kHz wideband, 16-bit WAV, mono or one channel per speaker
Speakers
Native Qatari speakers, balanced across gender and age groups
Annotation
Verbatim transcript, timestamps, speaker turns and gender; intents such as book appointment, application status, renew permit, pay fee
Quality check
Every transcript is cross-checked by several native Qatari reviewers

Example of the data

  1. Agent00:01

    هلا والله، معك حمد من خدمة العملاء، شلون أقدر أخدمك؟

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

  2. Customer00:04

    هلا، عندي مشكلة في المعاملة، من أمس أحاول وما ضبطت.

    Hi, I have a problem with my application. I’ve been trying since yesterday and it won’t work.

  3. Agent00:09

    أبشر، عطني رقم البطاقة الشخصية لو سمحت.

    Of course, give me your Qatar ID number, please.

  4. Customer00:12

    زين، بس أبي أعرف ليش صار جذي؟

    Fine, but I want to know why this happened.

What it is used for

  • Speech recognition for Qatari calls

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

  • Government contact centres

    Answer citizens and residents in their dialect, at any hour.

  • Service-quality monitoring

    Measure what people call about and how well each call ends.

  • Agent quality monitoring

    Score calls automatically against your service standards.

Questions

Which varieties of the dialect are included?

urban and Bedouin Qatari Arabic. Tell us the regions and the mix your product needs.

Which government services intents are labelled?

Intents such as book appointment, application status, renew permit, pay fee, 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.

Request samples and the full specification. We reply within a couple of business days.

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