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Mohammed Belkhiri
University Amar Telidji of Laghouat (UATL)

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Integrating blind source separation and self-supervised learning for Algerian Arabic connected-digit recognition Mourad Reggab; Mohammed Belkhiri
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 42, No 1: April 2026
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v42.i1.pp71-80

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This paper proposes an improvement in Arabic automatic speech recognition (ASR) by combining blind source separation (BSS) with self-supervised acous tic modeling. The study concentrates on the Algerian Arabic connected-digit recognition task and reexamines the classical degenerate unmixing estimation technique (DUET) as a front-end approach for suppressing noise and inter ference. The output of the BSS stage is fed into a Hidden Markov model (HMM) recognizer developed using the HTK toolkit. To contextualize DUET’s performance, it is compared with modern neural separation techniques (Conv TasNet, SepFormer) paired with both traditional and self-supervised ASR back ends (Wav2Vec 2.0 and Whisper). A new corpus of 11,230 utterances from 37 speakers, representing dialectal and gender diversity, was collected. Experimen tal outcomes indicate that DUET enhances word accuracy under stereo mixing conditions; however, neural separation combined with self-supervised ASR re sults in considerably lower word-error rates and stronger robustness in noisy or overlapping-speech scenarios. The study emphasizes practical trade-offs be tween computational cost and accuracy for deploying low-resource Arabic ASR systems.
Co-Authors Mourad Reggab