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Arabic (العربية), 28 seconds, taken 2026-10-27. Sentences read aloud by a volunteer. Output of the free preview with the language set to Arabic, not corrected.
The transcript, as the engine returned it
- الأرض كوكب جميل
- السفر بالسفين موتع جداً
- هل سبق أنزلت بريطانيا؟
- متى تلعب التنس؟
- ما الذي تفعله بوقت ثراقك؟
- هواية يجمع اللعب القديمة
- ما زال لدينا الكثير من الوقت
- أذكر أنني أرسلت الرسالة
- من عقد الاجتماعه هنا
- يسكن عمي في الشقة
- ما الذي حدث هنا؟
- نضع العالم بين يديك
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Against the reference sentences
Word error rate 22.4% (11 edits over 49 words), character error rate 5.6%; normalisation: Arabic (explained on the samples page).
The sentences the speaker was asked to read:
- الأرض كوكبٌ جميل.
- السفر بالسفينة ممتع جدا.
- هل سبق أن زرت بريطانيا ؟
- متى تلعب التنس ؟
- ما الذي تفعله بوقت فراغك ؟
- هوايتي جمع اللعب القديمة.
- ما زال لدينا الكثير من الوقت.
- أذكر أنني أرسلت الرسالة.
- انعقد الإجتماع هنا.
- يسكن عمي في شقة.
- ما الذي حدث هنا ؟
- نضع العالم بين يديك.
| In the reference sentence | In the transcript |
|---|---|
| بالسفينه | بالسفين |
| ممتع | موتع |
| ان | (missing) |
| زرت | انزلت |
| فراغك | ثراقك |
| هوايتي | هوايه |
| جمع | يجمع |
| (nothing: an extra word) | من |
| انعقد | عقد |
| الاجتماع | الاجتماعه |
| شقه | الشقه |
Where the recording comes from
- Source: Mozilla Common Voice 22.0, test split (CC0 1.0 public domain dedication, https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; copy used: https://huggingface.co/datasets/fsicoli/common_voice_22_0, whose card also says cc0-1.0).
- Licence: CC0 1.0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
- Which recording: One volunteer speaker who labelled their accent Levantine; twelve read sentences from the Arabic test split. The same recording that plays on the Arabic home page.
- Clip ids: common_voice_ar_22245828, common_voice_ar_22245852, common_voice_ar_22405194, common_voice_ar_22245847, common_voice_ar_22306775, common_voice_ar_22405201, common_voice_ar_22245846, common_voice_ar_22306764, common_voice_ar_22245848, common_voice_ar_22405177, common_voice_ar_22306755, common_voice_ar_22306786.
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