add arabic please

[51L3N7-X]

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[NeonClary]

@51L3N7-X Thank you for your interest in our project. Could you please confirm that you are requesting we add support for Modern Standard Arabic, and not for one of the many dialects and other language variants? Any are valid to request, just looking for clarification. I normally search for speech samples on https://librivox.org/ and request them if the type we need are not present. Their site is down today, but I'm guessing that if you're not wanting a variant dialect there will be plenty of good audio files available.

Arabic languages using the Arabic script as an abjad will almost certainly require we create a new version of our STT / TTS language acquisition process. If so, we'll have to wait longer to work on it because it will be too big a project for us to take on when we next add languages, unless we can get outside support. For example, at a minimum we will need a native speaker to consult and review our results. Someone with a linguistics and / or machine language-learning background might be necessary. Do you have knowledge and skills that might be helpful, or can you connect us with someone who does? Do you have any programming time or resources available to help support this project?

Also, if English isn't your first language and you need this translated, please reply and I'll rewrite it so that it can be translated more easily.

[AyaRabea]

How much data we need to add Arabic language?

[NeonBohdan]

Thanks, 1 hour of single speaker should be pretty good for Arabic