4 papers
Arab Voices: Mapping Standard and Dialectal Arabic Speech Technology
Peter Sullivan, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Alcides Alcoba Inciarte +1
Dialectal Arabic (DA) speech data vary widely in domain coverage, dialect labeling practices, and recording conditions, complicating cross-dataset comparison and model evaluation.…
NADI 2025: The First Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task
Bashar Talafha, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Peter Sullivan +9
We present the findings of the sixth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI 2025) Shared Task, which focused on Arabic speech dialect processing across three subtasks: spoken…
Voice of a Continent: Mapping Africa's Speech Technology Frontier
AbdelRahim Elmadany, Sang Yun Kwon, Hawau Olamide Toyin +3
Africa's rich linguistic diversity remains significantly underrepresented in speech technologies, creating barriers to digital inclusion. To alleviate this challenge, we systematic…
Where Are We? Evaluating LLM Performance on African Languages
Ife Adebara, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Nahom Tesfu Ghebremichael +2
Africa's rich linguistic heritage remains underrepresented in NLP, largely due to historical policies that favor foreign languages and create significant data inequities. In this p…