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 Chen Yushen described the project in a paper as “the first open-source framework for unified-dialectal Arabic speech synthesis”. Advertisement “To the best of our knowledge, research on unified-dialectal Arabic TTS is absent, not to mention an open-source framework,” the authors said in the paper, “Habibi: Laying the Open-Source Foundation of Unified-Dialectal…
Meet Habibi – the Chinese AI uniting 20 Arabic dialects in a Middle East first
