Peer-reviewed research
Colloquialising Modern Standard Arabic Text for Improved Speech Recognition
Sarah Al-Shareef and Thomas Hain, Interspeech 2016, 2016 · DOI 10.21437/Interspeech.2016-788
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- What it is
- A 2016 Interspeech paper that contrasts Modern Standard Arabic with the spoken regional varieties of Arabic, and uses that contrast to improve speech recognition for Arabic.
- How much weight it carries
- Peer-reviewed conference paper, read from its open abstract page. It describes the language situation in general terms and tests one method on one set of text, so it does not measure current commercial dictation accuracy.
Facts taken from this source
- A 2016 Interspeech paper says that Modern Standard Arabic is the official language of spoken and written Arabic media, while colloquial Arabic is the set of regional spoken varieties.
“Modern standard Arabic (MSA) is the official language of spoken and written Arabic media” (Abstract)