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NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task
Peter Sullivan, Bashar Talafha, Ahmed Ashraf +11
NADI 2026 is the seventh edition of the Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI) shared task series and the second dedicated to multidialectal Arabic speech processing. This ed…
An Ultra-Low Latency, End-to-End Streaming Speech Synthesis Architecture via Block-Wise Generation and Depth-Wise Codec Decoding
Tianhui Su, Tien-Ping Tan, Salima Mdhaffar +2
Real-time speech synthesis requires balancing inference latency and acoustic fidelity for interactive applications. Conventional continuous text-to-speech pipelines require computa…
SLURP-TN : Resource for Tunisian Dialect Spoken Language Understanding
Haroun Elleuch, Salima Mdhaffar, Yannick Estève +1
Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) aims to extract the semantic information from the speech utterance of user queries. It is a core component in a task-oriented dialogue system. W…
Ara-Best-RQ: Multi Dialectal Arabic SSL
Haroun Elleuch, Ryan Whetten, Salima Mdhaffar +2
We present Ara-BEST-RQ, a family of self-supervised learning (SSL) models specifically designed for multi-dialectal Arabic speech processing. Leveraging 5,640 hours of crawled Crea…
Pantagruel: Unified Self-Supervised Encoders for French Text and Speech
Phuong-Hang Le, Valentin Pelloin, Arnault Chatelain +27
We release Pantagruel models, a new family of self-supervised encoder models for French text and speech. Instead of predicting modality-tailored targets such as textual tokens or s…
TEDxTN: A Three-way Speech Translation Corpus for Code-Switched Tunisian Arabic - English
Fethi Bougares, Salima Mdhaffar, Haroun Elleuch +1
In this paper, we introduce TEDxTN, the first publicly available Tunisian Arabic to English speech translation dataset. This work is in line with the ongoing effort to mitigate the…
ELYADATA & LIA at NADI 2025: ASR and ADI Subtasks
Haroun Elleuch, Youssef Saidi, Salima Mdhaffar +2
This paper describes Elyadata \& LIA's joint submission to the NADI multi-dialectal Arabic Speech Processing 2025. We participated in the Spoken Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI)…
ADI-20: Arabic Dialect Identification dataset and models
Haroun Elleuch, Salima Mdhaffar, Yannick Estève +1
We present ADI-20, an extension of the previously published ADI-17 Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI) dataset. ADI-20 covers all Arabic-speaking countries' dialects. It comprises…
In-domain SSL pre-training and streaming ASR
Jarod Duret, Salima Mdhaffar, Gaëlle Laperrière +6
In this study, we investigate the benefits of domain-specific self-supervised pre-training for both offline and streaming ASR in Air Traffic Control (ATC) environments. We train BE…
SENSE models: an open source solution for multilingual and multimodal semantic-based tasks
Salima Mdhaffar, Haroun Elleuch, Chaimae Chellaf +2
This paper introduces SENSE (Shared Embedding for N-lingual Speech and tExt), an open-source solution inspired by the SAMU-XLSR framework and conceptually similar to Meta AI's SONA…
Performance Analysis of Speech Encoders for Low-Resource SLU and ASR in Tunisian Dialect
Salima Mdhaffar, Haroun Elleuch, Fethi Bougares +1
Speech encoders pretrained through self-supervised learning (SSL) have demonstrated remarkable performance in various downstream tasks, including Spoken Language Understanding (SLU…
Sonos Voice Control Bias Assessment Dataset: A Methodology for Demographic Bias Assessment in Voice Assistants
Chloé Sekkat, Fanny Leroy, Salima Mdhaffar +4
Recent works demonstrate that voice assistants do not perform equally well for everyone, but research on demographic robustness of speech technologies is still scarce. This is main…