Arabic AI
Aimee Look, CNN, Arabic AI could help open doors for other languages, 4 Oct 2023. “ Although ChatGPT, Meta’s LLaMA and other LLMs have Arabic-language capabilities, they were mostly...
Digital Urdu
Anmol Irfan, Time, The Fight to Preserve the Urdu Script in the Digital World, 27 Sep 2023 “The Matnsaz app is part of a larger initiative by the same...
Meanwhile, on the Dancefloor …
Mary Fawzy, New Lines Magazine, Nooriyah Brings Arabic Music to the Dance Floor, 22 Sep 2023. “The Saudi DJ splices genres and shows how regional classics have influenced modern...
AI MSA Translations
Arab News, Meta releases AI model for translating speech between dozens of languages, 22 Aug 2023 “… its [Meta’s] SeamlessM4T model could support translations between text and speech in...
Podcast: Digital Activism in the Arab World
This conversation with Laila Shereen Sakr on the afikra podcast is highly recommended. I found it helpful as I’m now working on archiving-related projects. I’ve just started reading Dr...
Arabic Bard
Haifa Alshammari, Arab News, Google launches chatbot Bard in Arabic, 13 July 2023 “Google launched its latest generative artificial intelligence experiment, Bard in Arabic, on Thursday, having introduced it...
NaTakallam
Arab News, Refugee-powered NaTakallam launches professional Arabic language courses, 5 July 2023 “Six Syrian refugees in the US have crafted the “Arabic for Professionals” course launched on Wednesday by...
African Arabic
Vaughn Rasberry, New Lines Magazine, In Search of African Arabic, 30 September, 2021 I missed this article the first time around: “For more than a millennium, Arabic in Africa...