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Kareem Darwish

5 accepted papers

2024

An Automated End-to-End Open-Source Software for High-Quality Text-to-Speech Dataset Generation

COLING 2024main

Data availability is crucial for advancing artificial intelligence applications, including voice-based technologies. As content creation, particularly in social media, experiences increasing demand, translation and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies have become essential tools. Notably, the performan…

2024

Arabic Diacritization Using Morphologically Informed Character-Level Model

COLING 2024main

Arabic diacritic recovery i.e. diacritization is necessary for proper vocalization and an enabler for downstream applications such as language learning and text to speech. Diacritics come in two varieties, namely: core-word diacritics and case endings. In this paper we introduce a highly effective m…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

SADA: Saudi Audio Dataset for Arabic

ICASSP 2024accepted

Arabic is among the most challenging languages in the world. Unfortunately, the scarcity of Arabic datasets makes studies in Arabic speech technology demanding. This paper introduces SADA, the Saudi Audio Dataset for Arabic, with 668 hours of high-quality audio suitable for supervised training. The…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2021

Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic: Modeling the Perspective of Journalists, Fact-Checkers, Social Media Platforms, Policy Makers, and the Society

EMNLP 2021finding

With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the medical aspects of disinformation merged as the problem got elevated to a whole new level to become the first global infodemic. Fighting this infodemic has been declared one of the most important focus areas of the World Health Organ…