Dziri Voicebot: Speech-to-Speech System for Algerian Dialect

Researchers have developed Dziri Voicebot, an end-to-end speech-to-speech conversational system specifically for the Algerian dialect. This system addresses the challenges of low-resource languages, including a lack of standardized orthography and frequent code-switching with French. The pipeline integrates automatic speech recognition (ASR) using a fine-tuned Whisper model, natural language understanding, retrieval-augmented generation, and text-to-speech synthesis, all trained on newly constructed datasets. AI

IMPACT This work provides a reproducible baseline for end-to-end conversational modeling in low-resource languages, potentially enabling broader access to speech technologies.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new system for a low-resource language. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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• Algerian dialect
• Bekheirias
• Dziri Voicebot
• French
• Hugging Face
• Lanasri
• Whisper

• paper
• model release

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