Authors

Bashar Talafha

Publications 2

Preprint Open access

CARDAMOM: A Micro-Dialectal Arabic Speech Dataset for ASR

Bashar Talafha, Samar M. Magdy, Aisha Alansari et al. · 2026

We present Cardamom, a micro-dialectal Arabic speech dataset designed to support fine-grained evaluation and adaptation of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Community-curated by native speakers familiar with the represented varieties, Cardamom contains approximately 40 hours of transcribed YouTube speech span …

Preprint Open access

NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task

Peter Sullivan, Bashar Talafha, Ahmed Ashraf et al. · 2026

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-Spe …

Co-authors