Meet Habibi – the Chinese AI uniting 20 Arabic dialects in a Middle East first
Meet Habibi – the Chinese AI uniting 20 Arabic dialects in a Middle East first
Meet Habibi – the Chinese AI uniting 20 Arabic dialects in a Middle East first
Lead author says there are many differences between Arabic dialects and Modern Standard Arabic, which is used in official circumstances.
Chinese researchers have released the world’s first open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model that unifies more than 20 Arabic dialects in an AI framework, a move poised to expand China’s technological influence in the Middle East, according to analysts. Led by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s X-LANCE Lab – one of China’s top audiovisual and language processing research entities – the model is named Habibi, meaning “my dear” in Arabic. In presenting their findings, the research team spearheaded by...