CARDAMOM: A Micro-Dialectal Arabic Speech Dataset for ASR

arXiv:2609.34481 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/cardamom-paper/Cardamom-data

Terminology

• Adaptation — 24× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Micro-Dialect Identification — 17× in this paper
• Accuracy — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 9× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmark — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Automatic Speech Recognition — 6× in this paper
• Benchmarking — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Clustering — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 4× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Alternation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• European Language Resources Association — 2× in this paper
• Lexical Diversity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding — 2× in this paper
• Annotation Ambiguity — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Annotator Agreement — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop — 1× in this paper
• LoRA Adapters — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LoRA Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Diacritic Recognition Performance in Arabic ASR
• Seamless: Multilingual Expressive and Streaming Speech Translation
• Habibi: Laying the Open-Source Foundation of Unified-Dialectal Arabic Speech Synthesis
• ADI-20: Arabic Dialect Identification dataset and models
• Overcoming Data Scarcity in Multi-Dialectal Arabic ASR via Whisper Fine-Tuning
• Arab Voices: Mapping Standard and Dialectal Arabic Speech Technology
• Zero-Shot Context-Aware ASR for Diverse Arabic Varieties
• N-Shot Benchmarking of Whisper on Diverse Arabic Speech Recognition

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