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Zien Sheikh Ali

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

AraYoungVoices: A Diverse L1/L2 Corpus of Arabic Child and Adolescent Speech

State-of-the-art ASR systems primarily target native adult speech, leading to substantial performance gaps for children, adolescents, and L2 speakers. We introduce AraYoungVoices, a 151.72-hour Arabic read-speech corpus from 286 speakers aged 7--18, comprising AraKids (7--12) and AraTeens (13--18). The corpus includes...

S. Chowdhury, Zien Sheikh Ali, H. Lachemat et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Review Feb 2026

MENASpeechBank: A Reference Voice Bank with Persona-Conditioned Multi-Turn Conversations for AudioLLMs

This work introduces MENASpeechBank, a reference speech bank comprising ~18K high-quality utterances from 124 speakers spanning multiple MENA countries, covering English, Modern Standard Arabic, and regional Arabic varieties, and develops a controllable data pipeline that constructs persona profiles enriched with WVS i...

Zien Sheikh Ali, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, R. N. Nandi et al. · 4 citations

Multi-turn Conversational AI from Text to Multimodal Interaction: Data, Models, Evaluation, and Open Challenges

This study reviews multi-turn conversational AI across text-only dialogue, AudioLLMs and speech-native systems, multimodal and omni-modal systems, and tool-augmented agents, and concludes with a research agenda for systems that can remember, revise, ground, speak, listen, act, and adapt across turns, modalities, and cu...

S. Sara, Zien Sheikh Ali, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti et al. · 3 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Aug 2026

ImageEval 2026: Culturally Grounded Arabic Multimodal Evaluation

An overview of the ImageEval 2026 shared task on culturally grounded Arabic multimodal evaluation is presented, covering spoken visual question answering and image-grounded hallucination detection in English and Modern Standard Arabic, and CRAI-Bench, evaluating the cultural accuracy of text-to-image generation.

Samir Abdaljalil, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Ahlam Bashiti et al. · 0 citations

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