Novel Techniques for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition

Novel Techniques for Dialectal Arabic Speech describes approaches to improve automatic speech recognition for dialectal Arabic. Since speech resources for dialectal Arabic speech recognition are very sparse, the authors describe how existing Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) speech data can be applied to dialectal Arabic speech recognition, while assuming that MSA is always a second language for all Arabic speakers.

In this book, Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA) has been chosen as a typical Ar...