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Natural Language Processing (NLP) is today a very active field of research and innovation. Many applications need however big sets of data for supervised learning, suitably labelled for the training purpose. This includes applications for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 ElMehdi Boujou , Hamza Chataoui , Abdellah El Mekki , Saad Benjelloun , Ikram Chairi , Ismail Berrada

Sequence-to-sequence models provide a simple and elegant solution for building speech recognition systems by folding separate components of a typical system, namely acoustic (AM), pronunciation (PM) and language (LM) models into a single…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-06 Bo Li , Tara N. Sainath , Khe Chai Sim , Michiel Bacchiani , Eugene Weinstein , Patrick Nguyen , Zhifeng Chen , Yonghui Wu , Kanishka Rao

In this work, we address the problem of spelling correction in the Arabic language utilizing the new corpus provided by QALB (Qatar Arabic Language Bank) project which is an annotated corpus of sentences with errors and their corrections.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Youssef Hassan , Mohamed Aly , Amir Atiya

We introduce the largest transcribed Arabic speech corpus, QASR, collected from the broadcast domain. This multi-dialect speech dataset contains 2,000 hours of speech sampled at 16kHz crawled from Aljazeera news channel. The dataset is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Hamdy Mubarak , Amir Hussein , Shammur Absar Chowdhury , Ahmed Ali

The focus of language model evaluation has transitioned towards reasoning and knowledge-intensive tasks, driven by advancements in pretraining large models. While state-of-the-art models are partially trained on large Arabic texts,…

Encouraged by the success of deep neural networks on a variety of visual tasks, much theoretical and experimental work has been aimed at understanding and interpreting how vision networks operate. Meanwhile, deep neural networks have also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Cory Stephenson , Jenelle Feather , Suchismita Padhy , Oguz Elibol , Hanlin Tang , Josh McDermott , SueYeon Chung

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

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

We describe the winning system for Task 2 of the KSAA-2026 Shared Task on Arabic Speech Dictation with Automatic Diacritization. The task requires producing fully diacritized Arabic text from speech audio and undiacritized transcripts, with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Meshal Alamr , Hassan Alqaeri , Abdullah Aldahlawi

Compensation for channel mismatch and noise interference is essential for robust automatic speech recognition. Enhanced speech has been introduced into the multi-condition training of acoustic models to improve their generalization ability.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Hung-Shin Lee , Pin-Yuan Chen , Yao-Fei Cheng , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

Speech recognition systems have made tremendous progress since the last few decades. They have developed significantly in identifying the speech of the speaker. However, there is a scope of improvement in speech recognition systems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Pierre Berjon , Avishek Nag , Soumyabrata Dev

Almost none of the 2,000+ languages spoken in Africa have widely available automatic speech recognition systems, and the required data is also only available for a few languages. We have experimented with two techniques which may provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Sandy Ritchie , You-Chi Cheng , Mingqing Chen , Rajiv Mathews , Daan van Esch , Bo Li , Khe Chai Sim

This work is part of a large research project entitled "Or\'eodule" aimed at developing tools for automatic speech recognition, translation, and synthesis for Arabic language. Our attention has mainly been focused on an attempt to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Mourad Mars , Mounir Zrigui , Mohamed Belgacem , Anis Zouaghi

People may be puzzled by the fact that voice over recordings data sets exist in addition to Text-to-Speech (TTS), Synthesis system advancements, albeit this is not the case. The goal of this study is to explain the relevance of TTS as well…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Hala Al Masri , Muhy Eddin Za'ter

Arabic spans over 30 spoken varieties, yet no open-source text-to-speech system unifies them. Key barriers include substantial cross-dialect lexical and phonological divergence, scarce synthesis-grade data, and the absence of a standardized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yushen Chen , Junzhe Liu , Yujie Tu , Zhikang Niu , Yuzhe Liang , Chunyu Qiang , Chen Zhang , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

Sentiment Analysis (SA) is an indispensable task for many real-world applications. Compared to limited resourced languages (i.e., Arabic, Bengali), most of the research on SA are conducted for high resourced languages (i.e., English,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Md. Atabuzzaman , Md Shajalal , Maksuda Bilkis Baby , Alexander Boden

Handwriting recognition refers to the identification of written characters. Handwriting recognition has become an acute research area in recent years for the ease of access of computer science. In this paper primarily discussed On-line and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Dr. Firoj Parwej

In this paper, we describe a spoken Arabic dialect identification (ADI) model for Arabic that consistently outperforms previously published results on two benchmark datasets: ADI-5 and ADI-17. We explore two architectural variations: ResNet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ajinkya Kulkarni , Hanan Aldarmaki

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 present our expert system of Automatic reading or speech synthesis based on a text written in Standard Arabic, our work is carried out in two great stages: the creation of the sound data base, and the transformation of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Tebbi Hanane , Azzoune Hamid