Twenty lists of ten Arabic sentences for assessment

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