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15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
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Arabic sounds were the first to be fully described and analyzed. The
place and manner of articulation of each Arabic sound were identified
and documented in the eighth century AD by Sibawayah in his famous
treatise al-Kitaab. Since then many Arabic scholars have quoted him,
but not much has been added to what he wrote.
Lately, King Abdulaziz
City for Science and Technology (KACST) has published a detailed and
comprehensive database called KACST Arabic Phonetics Database (KAPD)
(2000). KAPD gives almost all the details of the articulatory mechanism
of Arabic sounds. It contains more than 46000 files. They show the
results of 9 experiments on 8 native Arabic subjects. The experiments
include: airflow, air pressure, linguapalatal contact, nasality, perception,
side and front facial images, and stroboscopic images of the glottis,
pharyngeal cavity and velo-pharyngeal port. The data in KAPD are raw,
i.e., it can be utilized for research and development such as speech
therapy, speech perception, speech synthesis, speech recognition and
speech modeling. KAPD is available on 3 CD's for researchers and students
of Speech.
Bibliographic reference. Alghmadi, Mansour M. (2003): "KACST Arabic phonetics database", In ICPhS-15, 3109-3112.