3 papers
cs.SD2026
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…
cs.CL2026
Position-invariant Fine-tuning of Speech Enhancement Models with Self-supervised Speech Representations
Amit Meghanani, Thomas Hain
Integrating front-end speech enhancement (SE) models with self-supervised learning (SSL)-based speech models is effective for downstream tasks in noisy conditions. SE models are co…
cs.SD2025
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…