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Arabic Speech Processing: State of the Art and Future Outlook

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Intelligent Decision Technologies

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The aim of this article is to study the Arabic speech processing applications which have introduced the voice communication as a solution for specific situations (non-native speakers, speakers with voice disabilities, learners of Arabic vocabulary, speech recognition or speech synthesis). We present the principal applications of processing the Arabic spoken language accentuating the most challenges preventing obtaining better results. The current paper gives in detail the followed approaches and the applied techniques in the automatic processing applications of spoken Arabic, so it can be a reference study for researchers and developers who deal with this topic.

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  1. Computer Department, University Lille, CHU Lille, CERIM, ULR 2694, Lille, France

    Naim Terbeh

  2. Department of Computing, Taibah University, Taibah, Saudi Arabia

    Rim Teyeb

  3. Research Laboratory in Algebra, Numbers Theory and Intelligent Systems, Monastir University, Monastir, Tunisia

    Naim Terbeh, Rim Teyeb & Mounir Zrigui

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Terbeh, N., Teyeb, R., Zrigui, M. (2022). Arabic Speech Processing: State of the Art and Future Outlook. In: Czarnowski, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Intelligent Decision Technologies. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 309. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3444-5_5

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