AQQD: Annotated Quranic Qira’at Dataset
Year: 2026
Type: data-paper
Abstract: AQQD (Annotated Quranic Qira'at Dataset) is an open audio dataset of Quranic recitations annotated across canonical Qira'at styles. The dataset is designed to support research in machine learning, speech and audio processing, computational linguistics, and Quranic studies. The current release contains 24,183 WAV audio files from 309 reciters and covers 70 selected Quranic Surahs segmented into representative verses and phonetic variation points. Of these, 23,111 recordings were collected from publicly available sources, including official reciter websites, the Midad repository, MP3Quran, and verified YouTube channels, while an additional controlled subset of 1,072 recordings was obtained from a single reciter recorded as a Mus'haf provided by Taibah University (Madinah, Saudi Arabia). This controlled subset enables comparative analysis across Qira'at styles while minimizing speaker variability. Recordings are standardized to 44.1 kHz, 16-bit, mono WAV format and range from 6 to 17 seconds in duration. Structured metadata is embedded directly in filenames, enabling efficient filtering, indexing, and preprocessing. The dataset is publicly available under a CC0 1.0 Public Domain license and supports a range of reuse scenarios, including Qira'at classification, phonetic variation analysis, recitation verification, speaker-independent audio modeling, and the development of educational technologies for Quranic studies.
Source: Data in Brief
Institutions: Zayed University, University of Sharjah
Language: English
Topic: Music and Audio Processing
Subfield: Signal Processing
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,220
Funder: Zayed University
OpenAlex ID: W7164356111