Arabic Speech

The Arabic Speech Science and technology community.

[Desh Raj @rdesh26]

Now that @WavLab has created an open-science alternative to Whisper (called OWSM), I hope researchers building/analyzing whisper-based systems switch to OWSM instead!

[Arabic Speech @ArabicSpeech]

📢🗣️The first Arabic TTS challenge: QASR TTS 1.0 is open for registration! Part of #ASRU2023, Two tracks:
1⃣ 1 hour of clean and revised data.
2⃣ 10 hours of automatically labeled data.
Build your own Arabic anchor speaker!
👉https://t.co/bPcbHNg6Hu
#speechproc #tts #GenerativeAI

[Arabic Speech @ArabicSpeech]

📢🗣️The first Arabic TTS Challenge: QASR TTS 1.0 is open for registration! Part of #ASRU2023, 2 tracks:
1: 1 hour of clean and revised data
2: 10 hours of semi-labeled Broadcast data.
Build your own Arabic News Anchor.
👉https://t.co/bPcbHNg6Hu
#speechproc #tts #GenerativeAI

[Arabic Speech @ArabicSpeech]

@IWAN_RG يمكنكم الاطلاع على تفاصيل بيانات QASR في هذه الورقة البحثية
https://t.co/brWa8MZx9s

[Arabic Speech @ArabicSpeech]

📢The largest 2,000 hours multi-layer annotated corpus QASR is available @ https://t.co/sPwMy4DSLj QASR is suitable for ASR, dialect ID, punctuation, speaker ID-linking, and potentially other NLP modules for spoken data.
#nlproc #speechproc #Arabic #AI @QatarComputing @qcrialt

[Arabic Speech @ArabicSpeech]

Excited to share that QASR TTS corpus/code/demo is available here: https://t.co/3wYo3bOdDO
More resources are coming soon!

[Ahmed Ali @ahmedalitweet1]

Build your anchor speaker text to speech using less than one hour!
Unsupervised Data Selection for Text to Speech: Using Arabic Broadcast News as a Case Study
Blog: https://t.co/6dX7FAmQV7
Code: https://t.co/jAf5S8ilwI
Demo: https://t.co/H7R2Nga1v8
Paper: https://t.co/0lQlvFYXYg

[Arabic Speech @ArabicSpeech]

Remind us with @rogerkmoore's talk: Are we nearly there yet?
Looking forward to Sanjeev and panelist discussion.
@jhuclsp @ieee_slt #speechproc

[SLT 2026 @ieee_slt]

🌟What comes after deep learning?
Join us for in-person #panelDiscussion lead by Dr Sanjeev and our panelist for a thought-provoking discussion on 11 Jan23. For any question/comment to our panelist email us: [email protected] or reply to this tweet.
https://t.co/UFShsLBBcn

[Shammur Absar @shammur_absar]

Dialectal intrasentential code-switching Arabic-English(/French) ASR test set is now available for download from @ArabicSpeech Portal.
Check Data: https://t.co/vL5ulusO9u
and let us know what you think about it.
#speechProc #dialectalArabicSpeech @qcrialt @QatarComputing

[Arabic Speech @ArabicSpeech]

First speech conference in the region. Don't miss it out.
2-days #speechproc hackathon and Technologies for the spoken languages of the world. Join in person and make SLT2022 success!
https://t.co/Ia1Mf4ZeHV

[SLT 2026 @ieee_slt]

We received many requests to extend author registration due to @ieeeICASSP submission deadline.
📢We extended the author registration period till 3 November.
Join us in person in Doha, for SLT2022. 🏜️

[Shinji Watanabe @shinjiw_at_cmu]

Hi all, SLT'22 will organize a hackathon event. Please check https://t.co/xhjOBvRbh6 The application deadline is Sep. 30th! @ieee_slt

[Mia Tang @Miamiamia0103]

Have you wondered about the magic behind generative AI art tools like DALL·E and Midjourney? Seeing the outputs is fun, and learning the algorithms can be even more rewarding. Today we look at 4 popular Machine Learning models — Autoencoder, Transformer, Diffusion Model, and GAN.

[SLT 2026 @ieee_slt]

Last chance! Submit a paper for #SLT2022 by July 15, 2022. Learn more about all topics and submission guidelines here: https://t.co/T6vwhCt6UV
@ieee_slt #speechProc

[INTERSPEECH 2025 @ISCAInterspeech]

Have you ever considered becoming a student volunteer? We are looking for student volunteers to work with us in Incheon - we have an interesting offer for you that combines your learning experience with support for the registration! https://t.co/rqnchE9yFe

[Arabic Speech @ArabicSpeech]

JSALT2022 Opening Day Presentations Introduction by Sanjeev Khudanpur
@jhuclsp
https://t.co/GUSMStjkaj
https://t.co/c6EHJ8mPPs
#speechproc

[Arabic Speech @ArabicSpeech]

JSALT2022 Opening Day Presentation: Leveraging Pre-training Models for Speech Processing
@JSALT_pretrain
by @HungyiLee2
@jhuclsp
https://t.co/5172R01jm4
https://t.co/pj0OjSNK2W
#speechproc

[Arabic Speech @ArabicSpeech]

JSALT2022 Opening Day Presentation: Multilingual and Code-Switching Speech Recognition by @ahmaksod
@jhuclsp
https://t.co/8KJ4V5MybG
https://t.co/Xer1bfIui4
#speechproc

[Arabic Speech @ArabicSpeech]

JSALT2022 Esperanto by Anthony Larcher
@jhuclsp
https://t.co/8My5M0kiCO
https://t.co/Jnh23QTCgL
#speechproc

[SLT 2026 @ieee_slt]

Exciting Hackathon Announcement:
Have you ever asked yourself how your smartphone recognizes what you say and who you are?
How do machines recognize different languages?
Interested? Apply/register here: https://t.co/YKZlP4hQ8O The deadline for registration is November 4th, 2022.

[SLT 2026 @ieee_slt]

The deadline for Full Paper Submission is approaching fast! 15th of July 2022. The submission instructions are available here: https://t.co/T6vwhCbw3n
#SpeechProc #SLT2022 #deadline #callforpapers

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

OPT-175b:
Open Pre-Trained language model with 175 billion paramaters is now available to the research community.

Blog post: https://t.co/NBacfKGUHC
Paper: https://t.co/tLYUoWisZA
Code + small pre-trained models: https://t.co/M9nLCOf3Rx
(using OPT-175b requires a registration)