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Casablanca: Data and Models for Multidialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
Bashar Talafha, Karima Kadaoui, Samar Mohamed Magdy +24
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 divi…
uDistil-Whisper: Label-Free Data Filtering for Knowledge Distillation in Low-Data Regimes
Abdul Waheed, Karima Kadaoui, Bhiksha Raj +1
Recent work on distilling Whisper's knowledge into small models using pseudo-labels shows promising performance while reducing the size by up to 50%. This results in small, efficie…
To Distill or Not to Distill? On the Robustness of Robust Knowledge Distillation
Abdul Waheed, Karima Kadaoui, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Arabic is known to present unique challenges for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). On one hand, its rich linguistic diversity and wide range of dialects complicate the developmen…