most citedUnsupervised Data Selection for TTS: Using Arabic Broadcast News as a Case Study

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cs.CL20231 cited

Automatic Pronunciation Assessment -- A Review

Yassine El Kheir, Ahmed Ali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury

Pronunciation assessment and its application in computer-aided pronunciation training (CAPT) have seen impressive progress in recent years. With the rapid growth in language proces…

cs.SD2023

Speech collage: code-switched audio generation by collaging monolingual corpora

Amir Hussein, Dorsa Zeinali, Ondřej Klejch +6

Designing effective automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for Code-Switching (CS) often depends on the availability of the transcribed CS resources. To address data scarcity,…

cs.CL2023

L1-aware Multilingual Mispronunciation Detection Framework

Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali

The phonological discrepancies between a speaker's native (L1) and the non-native language (L2) serves as a major factor for mispronunciation. This paper introduces a novel multili…

cs.CL20231 cited

The complementary roles of non-verbal cues for Robust Pronunciation Assessment

Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali

Research on pronunciation assessment systems focuses on utilizing phonetic and phonological aspects of non-native (L2) speech, often neglecting the rich layer of information hidden…

eess.AS2023

MyVoice: Arabic Speech Resource Collaboration Platform

Yousseif Elshahawy, Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury +1

We introduce MyVoice, a crowdsourcing platform designed to collect Arabic speech to enhance dialectal speech technologies. This platform offers an opportunity to design large diale…

eess.AS20231 cited

FOOCTTS: Generating Arabic Speech with Acoustic Environment for Football Commentator

Massa Baali, Ahmed Ali

This paper presents FOOCTTS, an automatic pipeline for a football commentator that generates speech with background crowd noise. The application gets the text from the user, applie…