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Casablanca: Data and Models for Multidialectal Arabic Speech Recognition

arXiv 2410.04527 ↗First posted 6 Oct 2024cs.CLcited by 20

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Abstract (arXiv)

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 divide, thereby hindering technological and socioeconomic inclusion. This challenge is largely due to the absence of datasets that can empower diverse speech systems. In this paper, we seek to mitigate this obstacle for a number of Arabic dialects by presenting Casablanca, a large-scale community-driven effort to collect and transcribe a multi-dialectal Arabic dataset. The dataset covers eight dialects: Algerian, Egyptian, Emirati, Jordanian, Mauritanian, Moroccan, Palestinian, and Yemeni, and includes annotations for transcription, gender, dialect, and code-switching. We also develop a number of strong baselines exploiting Casablanca. The project page for Casablanca is accessible at: www.dlnlp.ai/speech/casablanca.

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  1. 2025Data Quality Issues in Multilingual Speech Datasets: The Need for Sociolinguistic Awareness and Proactive Language Planningcited by 10
  2. 2024Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboardcited by 4
  3. 2025The ML-SUPERB 2.0 Challenge: Towards Inclusive ASR Benchmarking for All Language Varietiescited by 4
  4. 2025ADI-20: Arabic Dialect Identification dataset and modelscited by 3
  5. 2026LQM: Linguistically Motivated Multidimensional Quality Metrics for Machine Translationcited by 3
  6. 2025Advancing Arabic Speech Recognition Through Large-Scale Weakly Supervised Learningcited by 2
  7. 2025Konooz: Multi-domain Multi-dialect Corpus for Named Entity Recognitioncited by 2
  8. 2026WASIL: In-the-Wild Arabic Spoken Interactions with LLMscited by 1
  9. 2026Aslema at NADI 2026: Data Augmentation for Intent Recognition and Slot Fillingcited by 1
  10. 2026Bulbul: A Dataset for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognitioncited by 1
  11. 2025Voice Conversion Improves Cross-Domain Robustness for Spoken Arabic Dialect Identificationcited by 0
  12. 2025ArFake: A Robust Framework for Multi-Dialect Arabic Speech Spoofing Detection Benchmarkcited by 0
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  1. 2026CTC-DID: CTC-Based Arabic dialect identification for streaming applicationscited by 0
  2. 2026Ramsa: A Large Sociolinguistically Rich Emirati Arabic Speech Corpus for ASR and TTScited by 0
  3. 2026SLURP-TN : Resource for Tunisian Dialect Spoken Language Understandingcited by 0
  4. 2026CV-18 NER: Augmented Common Voice for Named Entity Recognition from Arabic Speechcited by 0
  5. 2026Dziri Voicebot: An End-to-End Low-Resource Speech-to-Speech Conversational System for Algerian Dialectcited by 0
  6. 2026Enemray: Toward Capable Language Models for Hassaniyacited by 0
  7. 2026NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Taskcited by 0
  8. 2026Almieyar: A Culturally Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Dialect Arabic Speech Recognitioncited by 0