<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Dear Mark Lee,</SPAN></div>
<div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 19px; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Thank you for your help.</SPAN></div>
<div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 19px; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Actually I have seen this resources before and I took a look on the paper too.</SPAN></div>
<div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 19px; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">It seems that the levantine part is relatively small. So I did not ask for the corpus. </SPAN></div>
<div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 19px; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Can you pleae tell me how large is the levantine part of your corpus?</SPAN></div>
<div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 19px; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The institute I am working for is ready to even buy a corpus if it has sufficient characteristics.</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Bests</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Shohreh<BR style="RIGHT: auto"></div>
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<DIV>Dear Shohreh
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<DIV>I’m not sure we can help with the phonetic transcription requirement but please see</DIV>
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<DIV>I hope this helps</DIV>
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<DIV>Best regards</DIV>
<DIV>Mark</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">For a speech recognition task I am loking for a speech corpus with phonetic transcription preferably in Levantine Arabic. Does anybody know a corpus other than those which are already presented in ELRA or LDC ?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE> </DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>