Twenty Lists of Ten Arabic Sentences for Assessment

This paper presents twenty lists of ten phonetically balanced Arabic sentences. This reference corpus fills a bibliographic void met when assessing objective and subjective speech quality using Arabic (quality of coders and speech synthesis, assessment of pitch detectors, characterization of Arabic sounds, psycho linguistic tests, etc.). This corpus is based on Combescure's works for French sentences [1]. Statistical studies of Moussa [2] and Mrayati [3] about Arabic roots and Arabic words are used. The lists account for all possible CV syllable and respect their occcurence frequencies in Arabic.