Abstract
NADI 2026 is the seventh edition of the Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI) shared task series and the second dedicated to multidialectal Arabic speech processing. This edition comprises five tasks and eight subtasks spanning Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Spoken Dialect Identification (SDID), Text-to-Speech (TTS), Spoken Language Translation (SLT), and Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). NADI 2026 emphasizes realistic evaluation through low-bandwidth, mixed-dialect, code-switched, out-of-domain, and zero-shot settings, while introducing TTS, SLT, and SLU to the series for the first time. The shared task attracted 21 participating teams from at least 13 countries, with 48 test-phase submissions and 14 submitted system-description papers. Results show that out-of-domain generalization remains a major bottleneck and highlight the effectiveness of recent Arabic-specialized speech models, multimodal dialect identification approaches, and ensemble methods. Overall, NADI 2026 provides a broader and more challenging benchmark for robust Arabic dialect speech processing.
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Sullivan, P., Talafha, B., Ashraf, A., Bougares, F., Elleuch, H., Zhang, C., Elmadany, A., Mohamed, Y., Mdhaffar, S., Estève, Y., Elhoseiny, M., Luqman, H., Habash, N., & Abdul-Mageed, M. (2026). NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/nadi-2026-the-second-multidialectal-arabic-speech-processing-shared-task
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Sullivan, Peter, et al. "NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/nadi-2026-the-second-multidialectal-arabic-speech-processing-shared-task.
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Sullivan, Peter, Bashar Talafha, Ahmed Ashraf, Fethi Bougares, Haroun Elleuch, Chiyu Zhang, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Youssef Mohamed, Salima Mdhaffar, Yannick Estève, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Hamzah Luqman, Nizar Habash, and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed. 2026. "NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/nadi-2026-the-second-multidialectal-arabic-speech-processing-shared-task.
Harvard
Sullivan, P., Talafha, B., Ashraf, A., Bougares, F., Elleuch, H., Zhang, C., Elmadany, A., Mohamed, Y., Mdhaffar, S., Estève, Y., Elhoseiny, M., Luqman, H., Habash, N. and Abdul-Mageed, M. (2026) 'NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task', Available at: https://omanscience.com/en/articles/nadi-2026-the-second-multidialectal-arabic-speech-processing-shared-task.
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Sullivan P, Talafha B, Ashraf A, Bougares F, Elleuch H, Zhang C, et al. NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/nadi-2026-the-second-multidialectal-arabic-speech-processing-shared-task
IEEE
P. Sullivan, B. Talafha, A. Ashraf, F. Bougares, H. Elleuch, C. Zhang, A. Elmadany, Y. Mohamed, S. Mdhaffar, Y. Estève, M. Elhoseiny, H. Luqman, N. Habash, and M. Abdul-Mageed, "NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task," https://omanscience.com/en/articles/nadi-2026-the-second-multidialectal-arabic-speech-processing-shared-task.