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This chapter presents a brief overview of the evolution of Arabic speech recognition systems. It provides a literature survey of Arabic speech recognition systems and discusses some of the challenges of Arabic from the speech recognition point of view.
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AbuZeina, D., Elshafei, M. (2012). Arabic Speech Recognition Systems. In: Cross-Word Modeling for Arabic Speech Recognition. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1213-7_2
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