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Arabic text recognition is a challenging task because of the cursive nature of Arabic writing system, its joint writing scheme, the large number of ligatures and many other challenges. Deep Learning DL models achieved significant progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Mohammad Fasha , Bassam Hammo , Nadim Obeid , Jabir Widian

We present Camelira, a web-based Arabic multi-dialect morphological disambiguation tool that covers four major variants of Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian, Gulf, and Levantine. Camelira offers a user-friendly web interface that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Ossama Obeid , Go Inoue , Nizar Habash

The rich linguistic landscape of the Arab world is characterized by a significant gap between Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the language of formal communication, and the diverse regional dialects used in everyday life. This diglossia…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Serry Sibaee , Omer Nacar , Yasser Al-Habashi , Adel Ammar , Wadii Boulila

This study presents systems submitted by the University of Texas at Dallas, Center for Robust Speech Systems (UTD-CRSS) to the MGB-3 Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI) subtask. This task is defined to discriminate between five dialects of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-03 Ahmet E. Bulut , Qian Zhang , Chunlei Zhang , Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad , John H. L. Hansen

The use of multilingual language models for tasks in low and high-resource languages has been a success story in deep learning. In recent times, Arabic has been receiving widespread attention on account of its dialectal variance. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Soumajyoti Sarkar , Kaixiang Lin , Sailik Sengupta , Leonard Lausen , Sheng Zha , Saab Mansour

With the advent of globalization, there is an increasing demand for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR), handling language and dialectal variation of spoken content. Recent studies show its efficacy over monolingual systems. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shammur Absar Chowdhury , Amir Hussein , Ahmed Abdelali , Ahmed Ali

In spite of the recent progress in speech processing, the majority of world languages and dialects remain uncovered. This situation only furthers an already wide technological divide, thereby hindering technological and socioeconomic…

This paper describes the Arabic MGB-3 Challenge - Arabic Speech Recognition in the Wild. Unlike last year's Arabic MGB-2 Challenge, for which the recognition task was based on more than 1,200 hours broadcast TV news recordings from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Ahmed Ali , Stephan Vogel , Steve Renals

We present a unified benchmark for mispronunciation detection in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) using Qur'anic recitation as a case study. Our approach lays the groundwork for advancing Arabic pronunciation assessment by providing a…

Recognition of Arabic characters is essential for natural language processing and computer vision fields. The need to recognize and classify the handwritten Arabic letters and characters are essentially required. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Mahmoud Shams , Amira. A. Elsonbaty , Wael. Z. ElSawy

In this work, we explore Parameter-Efficient-Learning (PEL) techniques to repurpose a General-Purpose-Speech (GSM) model for Arabic dialect identification (ADI). Specifically, we investigate different setups to incorporate trainable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Srijith Radhakrishnan , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Sumeer Ahmad Khan , Narsis A. Kiani , David Gomez-Cabrero , Jesper N. Tegner

One of the major parts of the voice recognition field is the choice of acoustic features which have to be robust against the variability of the speech signal, mismatched conditions, and noisy environments. Thus, different speech feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Zhor Benhafid , Kawthar Yasmine Zergat , Abderrahmane Amrouche

Arabic has diverse dialects, where one dialect can be substantially different from the others. In the NLP literature, some assumptions about these dialects are widely adopted (e.g., ``Arabic dialects can be grouped into distinguishable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Amr Keleg , Sharon Goldwater , Walid Magdy

With the rise of generative text-to-speech models, distinguishing between real and synthetic speech has become challenging, especially for Arabic that have received limited research attention. Most spoof detection efforts have focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mohamed Maged , Alhassan Ehab , Ali Mekky , Besher Hassan , Shady Shehata

The largest dataset of Arabic speech mispronunciation detections in Egyptian dialogues is introduced. The dataset is composed of annotated audio files representing the top 100 words that are most frequently used in the Arabic language,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Salah A. Aly , Abdelrahman Salah , Hesham M. Eraqi

Parsing the Arabic language is a difficult task given the specificities of this language and given the scarcity of digital resources (grammars and annotated corpora). In this paper, we suggest a method for Arabic parsing based on supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Nabil Khoufi , Chafik Aloulou , Lamia Hadrich Belguith

The Arabic Sign Language has endorsed outstanding research achievements for identifying gestures and hand signs using the deep learning methodology. The term "forms of communication" refers to the actions used by hearing-impaired people to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Rady El Rwelli , Osama R. Shahin , Ahmed I. Taloba

This article presents a full end-to-end pipeline for Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI) using intonation patterns and acoustic representations. Recent approaches to language and dialect identification use linguistic-aware deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Aitor Arronte Alvarez , Elsayed Sabry Abdelaal Issa

In this paper, we discuss the issues in automatic recognition of vowels in Persian language. The present work focuses on new statistical method of recognition of vowels as a basic unit of syllables. First we describe a vowel detection…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2008-12-15 Mohammad Nazari , Abolghasem Sayadiyan , SeyedMajid Valiollahzadeh

Arabic dialect identification (ADI) tools are an important part of the large-scale data collection pipelines necessary for training speech recognition models. As these pipelines require application of ADI tools to potentially out-of-domain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Peter Sullivan , AbdelRahim Elmadany , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed