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| | license: cc-by-4.0 |
| | language: |
| | - ar |
| | multilinguality: |
| | - monolingual |
| | pretty_name: Ara-Best-RQ Dataset |
| | size_categories: |
| | - 1M<n<10M |
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| | |
| | # Ara-Best-RQ Dataset |
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| | ## Dataset Summary |
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| | This dataset provides **metadata only** for a dialectal Arabic speech corpus constructed from publicly available YouTube videos. |
| | It consists exclusively of **YouTube video identifiers** and **audio segment boundaries (start/end timestamps)** designed for **self-supervised speech representation learning**. |
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| | **No audio or video content is distributed as part of this dataset.** |
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| | ## Dataset Statistics |
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| | - **Total spoken duration:** 5,639 h 04 min 27 s |
| | - **Number of videos:** 41,826 |
| | - **Number of speech segments:** 3,860,419 |
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| | ## Supported Tasks |
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| | - Self-supervised speech representation learning |
| | - Speech segmentation |
| | - Arabic speech and dialect research |
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| | ## Languages |
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| | - Arabic (`ar`) |
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| | ## Dataset Structure |
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| | Each entry includes: |
| | - A YouTube video identifier |
| | - Segment start time (seconds) |
| | - Segment end time (seconds) |
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| | Users are expected to retrieve the referenced media themselves and extract the corresponding audio segments. |
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| | ## Licensing Information |
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| | ### Metadata License |
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| | All metadata (video identifiers and segment boundaries) is released under: |
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| | **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)** |
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| | This license applies **only to the metadata** provided in this dataset. |
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| | ### Referenced Media |
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| | The referenced audio/video content: |
| | - Is **not distributed** |
| | - Remains hosted on YouTube |
| | - Is subject to the **original license selected by the content uploader** |
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| | Users are responsible for ensuring compliance with the original content licenses and YouTube’s Terms of Service. |
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| | ## Citation |
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| | If you use this dataset, please cite the following paper: |
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| | > **Ara-Best-RQ: Multi Dialectal Arabic SSL** |
| | > Haroun Elleuch, Ryan Whetten, Salima Mdhaffar, Yannick Estève, Fethi Bougares |
| | > *Accepted at ICASSP 2026* |
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| | A BibTeX entry will be provided once the proceedings are published. |
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| | ## Ethical Considerations |
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| | - This dataset references only publicly available content |
| | - No personally identifying information is added or inferred |
| | - No attempt is made to identify speakers |
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| | ## Limitations |
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| | - Some referenced videos may become unavailable over time |
| | - Audio quality and recording conditions vary |
| | - Licensing information for individual videos is not exhaustively archived |
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| | ## Contact |
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| | For questions, corrections, or takedown requests, please contact the dataset maintainer via the Hugging Face repository. |
