arXiv Computation and Language September 11, 2026 By Yingzhi Wang, Reem Alhazzani, Muhammad Alqurishi

Nuha-Speech: Building General-Purpose Arabic Speech-LLMs

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Nuha‑Speech is a new initiative aimed at creating general‑purpose Arabic speech‑large language models (speech‑LLMs). It includes the construction of a large Arabic Speech Question‑Answering corpus with over 1.5 million samples for instruction tuning, supervised fine‑tuning of Qwen‑Omni model variants at various scales, and a systematic evaluation framework with diverse tasks and tailored metrics. The project seeks to establish foundational infrastructure for Arabic speech‑LLMs amid limited Arabic speech resources.

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