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Nuha-Speech: Building General-Purpose Arabic Speech-LLMs

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 10, 2026 · UTC

As Speech Large Language Models (speech-LLMs) become increasingly multilingual, Arabic remains significantly underrepresented, highlighting the need for dedicated infrastructure to train and evaluate Arabic speech-LLMs. To address this gap, we introduce Nuha-Speech, a comprehensive initiative to develop general-purpose Arabic speech-LLMs spanning dataset construction, model training, and systematic evaluation. Specifically, we constructed a large-scale Arabic Speech Question-Answering (SQA) corpus comprising over 1.5 million training samples to allow instruction tuning over a broad range of co

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