Lead author says there are many differences between Arabic dialects and Modern Standard Arabic, which is used in official circumstances
In presenting their findings, the research team spearheaded by Chen Yushen described the project in a paper as “the first open-source framework for unified-dialectal Arabic speech synthesis”.
“To the best of our knowledge, research on unified-dialectal Arabic TTS is absent, not to mention an open-source framework,” the authors said in the paper, “Habibi: Laying the Open-Source Foundation of Unified-Dialectal Arabic Speech Synthesis”. It was published last month on arXiv, an open-access repository that is not peer-reviewed.
World’s first ‘fully biomimetic embodied intelligent robot’ debuts in Shanghai
World’s first ‘fully biomimetic embodied intelligent robot’ debuts in ShanghaiHabibi has the “zero-shot” ability, meaning the model can easily clone a voice by using just a short reference audio clip, without prior explicit or extensive training. This allows applications in highly efficient and on-the-fly scenarios.
