Social background profiling of speakers is heavily used in areas, such as, speech forensics,
and tuning speech recognition for accuracy improvement. This article provides a survey of …

Speech samples can provide valuable information regarding speaker characteristics,
including their social backgrounds. Accent variations with speaker backgrounds reflect …

As dialects are widely used in many countries, there is growing interest in incorporating
them into various applications, including conversational systems. Processing spoken …

Detecting variations in dialects within a language can be challenging, particularly in regions
with rich linguistic diversity like Saudi Arabia. To our knowledge, no prior attempts have …

The complex challenge of detecting sarcasm in Arabic speech on social media is increased
by the language diversity and the nature of sarcastic expressions. There is a significant gap …

Abstract Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems turn normal text into spoken language, which is
important for accessibility and user interaction. Many of these systems make speech from …

This study investigated pronunciation errors made by Kuwaiti Arabic (KA) learners of English
as a foreign language (EFL) in their production of English consonant clusters. The …

Dialect identification for speech based applications has a very bright future in a multi-lingual
country like India. But due to the lack of resources like standard dialectal speech databases …

Despite the plethora and diversity of research on Natural Language Processing (NLP). As a
technique allowing computers to understand, generate, and manipulate human language; It …

Individuals with disabilities face unique challenges in both their daily lives and education. As
society becomes increasingly complex, visually impaired and physically disabled students …