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AraYoungVoices: A Diverse L1/L2 Corpus of Arabic Child and Adolescent Speech
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Zien Sheikh Ali, Houssam Eddine-Othman Lachemat +1
State-of-the-art ASR systems primarily target native adult speech, leading to substantial performance gaps for children, adolescents, and L2 speakers. We introduce AraYoungVoices,…
Almieyar: A Culturally Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Dialect Arabic Speech Recognition
Omid Ghahroodi, Anas Madkoor, Dima Faris Al Saudi +37
Arabic speech technology has largely focused on Modern Standard Arabic, leaving the living dialects spoken by hundreds of millions under-served. We introduce ALMIEYAR, a culturally…
Child ASR Adaptation with Adult Retention: An Empirical Study
Houssam Eddine-Othman Lachemat, Shammur Absar Chowdhury
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems often underperform for children and non-native speakers, while adapting adult ASR models to child speech can cause adult-speech forgettin…
Fanar 2.0: Arabic Generative AI Stack
FANAR TEAM, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad +34
We present Fanar 2.0, the second generation of Qatar's Arabic-centric Generative AI platform. Sovereignty is a first-class design principle: every component, from data pipelines to…
CAFE A Novel Code switching Dataset for Algerian Dialect French and English
Houssam Eddine-Othman Lachemat, Akli Abbas, Nourredine Oukas +3
The paper introduces and publicly releases (Data download link available after acceptance) CAFE -- the first Code-switching dataset between Algerian dialect, French, and english la…