Unlocking Algerian Voice
DZIRI VOICEBOT: AN END-TO-END LOW-RESOURCE SPEECH-TO-SPEECH CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEM FOR ALGERIAN DIALECT
July 5, 2026
|2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
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Automatic speech and language technologies are still heavily biased toward high-resource languages, limiting their applicability to dialectal and low-resource settings such as Algerian Dialect. This paper addresses the problem of building a complete speech-to-speech conversational system for Algerian Dialect. We propose a modular pipeline integrating automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language understanding (NLU), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis within a unified architecture. We constructed dedicated datasets for ASR, NLU, and TTS in the telecom domain and fine-tune pretrained models for each component. The ASR system is built on Whisper-based adaptation, while the NLU module combines transformer-based embeddings with a task-oriented dialogue framework. A neural TTS system is trained on a newly collected dialectal corpus to enable spoken response generation. Experimental results show strong performance across all components, including low word error rate for ASR, high intent classification and entity recognition scores for NLU, and stable speech synthesis quality.
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