Topic
Arabic
Arabic in production: dialects, code-switching, right-to-left, and speech.
5 posts
- Running ten dialects of one language through one pipelineMost speech stacks assume one user speaks one language. Production breaks that in week one, and the fixes are the same whichever language you start from.Language10 min
- Text-to-speech for agents when the language is hardSynthesis quality is decided upstream of the model that makes the sound. The two stages that break on a hard language, with Arabic as the worked example.Language9 min
- Why some varieties of a language get recognised and others do notEgyptian Arabic is the best-served spoken variety of Arabic, and the reasons are historical rather than linguistic. What that predicts for every other language.Language8 min
- Shipping speech for a variety with less training dataHow to measure recognition coverage for a language variety the big corpora barely contain, using Gulf Arabic as the case where the gap is documented.Language10 min
- When your user changes language mid-sentenceCode-switching is the normal way bilingual people talk, and it breaks pipelines that pick one language per utterance. What fails, and how to test for it.Language9 min