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

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arXiv:2609.11892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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-s