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DeepFense: A Unified, Modular, and Extensible Framework for Robust Deepfake Audio Detection
Yassine El Kheir, Arnab Das, Yixuan Xiao +6
Speech deepfake detection is a well-established research field with different models, datasets, and training strategies. However, the lack of standardized implementations and evalu…
IQRA 2026: Interspeech Challenge on Automatic Pronunciation Assessment for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)
Yassine El Kheir, Amit Meghanani, Mostafa Shahin +5
We present the findings of the second edition of the IQRA Interspeech Challenge, a challenge on automatic Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis (MDD) for Modern Standard Arabic…
Towards a Unified Benchmark for Arabic Pronunciation Assessment: Quranic Recitation as Case Study
Yassine El Kheir, Omnia Ibrahim, Amit Meghanani +12
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 advanc…
MorphBPE: A Morpho-Aware Tokenizer Bridging Linguistic Complexity for Efficient LLM Training Across Morphologies
Ehsaneddin Asgari, Yassine El Kheir, Mohammad Ali Sadraei Javaheri
Tokenization is fundamental to Natural Language Processing (NLP), directly impacting model efficiency and linguistic fidelity. While Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) is widely used in Larg…
Fanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform
Fanar Team, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad +39
We present Fanar, a platform for Arabic-centric multimodal generative AI systems, that supports language, speech and image generation tasks. At the heart of Fanar are Fanar Star an…
L1-aware Multilingual Mispronunciation Detection Framework
Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
The phonological discrepancies between a speaker's native (L1) and the non-native language (L2) serves as a major factor for mispronunciation. This paper introduces a novel multili…
The complementary roles of non-verbal cues for Robust Pronunciation Assessment
Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
Research on pronunciation assessment systems focuses on utilizing phonetic and phonological aspects of non-native (L2) speech, often neglecting the rich layer of information hidden…
MyVoice: Arabic Speech Resource Collaboration Platform
Yousseif Elshahawy, Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury +1
We introduce MyVoice, a crowdsourcing platform designed to collect Arabic speech to enhance dialectal speech technologies. This platform offers an opportunity to design large diale…
Multi-View Multi-Task Representation Learning for Mispronunciation Detection
Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
The disparity in phonology between learner's native (L1) and target (L2) language poses a significant challenge for mispronunciation detection and diagnosis (MDD) systems. This cha…
LAraBench: Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models
Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Absar Chowdhury +13
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly influenced the landscape of language and speech research. Despite this progress, these models lack specific b…