<s>
The	O
Arabic	B-Application
Speech	I-Application
Corpus	I-Application
is	O
a	O
Modern	O
Standard	O
Arabic	O
(	O
MSA	O
)	O
speech	O
corpus	O
for	O
speech	B-Application
synthesis	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Arabic	B-Application
Speech	I-Application
Corpus	I-Application
was	O
built	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
a	O
doctoral	O
project	O
by	O
Nawar	O
Halabi	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Southampton	O
funded	O
by	O
who	O
own	O
an	O
exclusive	O
license	O
to	O
commercialise	O
the	O
corpus	O
,	O
but	O
the	O
corpus	O
is	O
available	O
for	O
strictly	O
non-commercial	O
purposes	O
through	O
the	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
corpus	O
was	O
mainly	O
built	O
for	O
speech	B-Application
synthesis	I-Application
purposes	O
,	O
specifically	O
Speech	B-Application
Synthesis	I-Application
,	O
but	O
the	O
corpus	O
has	O
been	O
used	O
for	O
building	O
HMM	O
based	O
voices	O
in	O
Arabic	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
corpus	O
was	O
also	O
used	O
to	O
prove	O
that	O
using	O
automatically	O
extracted	O
,	O
orthography-based	O
stress	O
marks	O
improve	O
the	O
quality	O
of	O
speech	B-Application
synthesis	I-Application
in	O
MSA	O
.	O
</s>
