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Zero-Shot Context-Aware ASR for Diverse Arabic Varieties
Bashar Talafha, Amin Abu Alhassan, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Zero-shot ASR for Arabic remains challenging: while multilingual models perform well on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), error rates rise sharply on dialectal and accented speech due…
CS-FLEURS: A Massively Multilingual and Code-Switched Speech Dataset
Brian Yan, Injy Hamed, Shuichiro Shimizu +24
We present CS-FLEURS, a new dataset for developing and evaluating code-switched speech recognition and translation systems beyond high-resourced languages. CS-FLEURS consists of 4…
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…
Casablanca: Data and Models for Multidialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
Bashar Talafha, Karima Kadaoui, Samar Mohamed Magdy +24
In spite of the recent progress in speech processing, the majority of world languages and dialects remain uncovered. This situation only furthers an already wide technological divi…