NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task

arXiv:2609.27086 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Code: https://github.com/idiap/coqui-ai-TTS

Project page: https://nadi.dlnlp.ai/2026

Terminology

• Automatic Speech Recognition — 17× in this paper
• Dialectal Arabic — 17× in this paper
• Fine-Tuning — 17× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adaptation — 16× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Spoken Language Understanding — 15× in this paper
• Benchmark — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Spoken Language Translation — 12× in this paper
• Transformer — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Data Augmentation — 6× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification — 6× in this paper
• Generalization — 5× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Foundation Model — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• United Arab Emirates — 4× in this paper
• Transfer Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Arabic Text-to-Speech — 2× in this paper
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• European Language Resources Association — 2× in this paper
• Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) — 2× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Low-Resource Languages — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Pseudo-labeling — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding — 2× in this paper
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• CoER and Concept-Value Error Rate — 1× in this paper
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Domain Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Ensemble Approach — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• LLM Integration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LoRA Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LoRA Adapters — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LoRA Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Resource Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Unlike Modern Standard Arabic — 1× in this paper
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• AfriHuBERT: A self-supervised speech representation model for African languages
• SpeechT5: Unified-Modal Encoder-Decoder Pre-Training for Spoken Language Processing
• SeamlessM4T: Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation
• Seamless: Multilingual Expressive and Streaming Speech Translation
• XTTS: a Massively Multilingual Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Model
• Habibi: Laying the Open-Source Foundation of Unified-Dialectal Arabic Speech Synthesis
• Omnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages
• Automatic Speech Recognition Biases in Newcastle English: an Error Analysis
• A Survey on Neural Speech Synthesis
• Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS: Freely Controllable and Highly Robust Speech Synthesis with Multi-Stage Training Paradigm
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• VoxCPM2 Technical Report
• OmniVoice: Towards Omnilingual Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Diffusion Language Models

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