The paper presents an automated pipeline that generates high‑quality Quranic datasets, including 848 hours of audio and 286,000 annotated utterances, by collecting recitations, segmenting at pause points with a fine‑tuned wav2vec2‑BERT model, transcribing segments, and verifying transcripts using a novel Tasmeea algorithm. It introduces qdat_bench, a benchmark covering phonemes, diacritization, and Tajweed rules, and a custom Quran Phonetic Script (QPS) for encoding Tajweed. A multi‑level CTC model trained on this data achieves a 0.21% phoneme error rate on the test set and 1.94% on qdat_bench, with a 75.8% Tajweed F1 score.
By Abdullah Abdelfattah, Mahmoud I. Khalil, Hazem Abbas
arXiv:2609.14967v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Quranic text is distributed in two orthographic forms that are byte-level distinct: the Uthmani script used in every printed mushaf, and the Standard (...
By Yahya Mohamed Elnawasany
arXiv:2510.10774v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Persian remains substantially underrepresented in open speech-text resources, limiting progress in multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS), speech...
By Mohammad Javad Ranjbar Kalahroodi, Heshaam Faili, Azadeh Shakery
The paper introduces a unified phoneme‑based TTS‑to‑ASR augmentation pipeline that uses a multilingual TTS model with language‑ID conditioning and incorporates grapheme‑to‑phoneme conversion, reference‑speech filtering, and candidate‑text selection. It proposes phoneme‑frequency‑guided selection (PFGS) to rank sentences based on phoneme frequencies from real ASR labels, and demonstrates that random augmentation and PFGS both improve ASR performance across Arabic, French, Italian, and Portuguese test sets, with PFGS yielding up to a 19.3% relative WER reduction. The study also shows that filtering reference speech can further lower WER by up to 0.59 points on certain datasets.
By Zhen Wang, TianRui Wu, RongQi Han, Hao Wu, Wei Liang
arXiv:2609.24410v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Speech-to-text engines are extremely needed nowadays for different applications, representing an essential enabler in human-robot interaction. Still, s...
By Ali A. Safieh, Ibrahim Abu Alhaol, Rawan Ghnemat
arXiv:2609.14542v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neyshekar is presented as an open Persian read-speech corpus designed for coverage of both formal and informal language, named entities, and longer utt...
By Ahmad Amirivojdan, Farzad Nadiri, Abolfazl Alizadeh, Shaghayegh Yaraghi