Challenge: despite of the great demand, there is still a huge shortage in available corpora for dialectal languages and code-switched speech.
Approach: They collect conversational Egyptian Arabic spontaneous speech, extract transcriptions and analyze it from a code-switching perspective.
Outcome: The authors collect conversational Egyptian Arabic spontaneous speech, extract transcriptions and analyze speech from the code-switching perspective.

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