2 papers
cs.CL2024
Towards Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech for Arabic Dialects
Khai Duy Doan, Abdul Waheed, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (ZS-TTS) systems have advanced for English, however, it still lags behind due to insufficient resources. We address this gap for Arabic, a la…
cs.CL2024
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…