Collection and Analysis of Code-switch Egyptian Arabic-English Speech Corpus (L18-1)
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| 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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