Azure AI Speech
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English Transcription in Arabic ASR
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Imran Ali
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Dear team,
ASR-issue.pngwhile using the Arabic ASR (for Egyptian and Moroccan dialects), we are experiencing a mix of English/Gibberish in Roman/Latin script. We were expecting the Arabic ASR to be transcribing only in Arabic script. For example, for "Balance Inquiry", the speaker said, "استعلام عن الرصيد" but the transcription was "Is staleman or. Rosie" (see image attached). Could you please help us fix this issue ASAP?
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Manas Mohanty 6,455 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator2025-05-06T15:25:53.13+00:00 Hi Imran Ali
I am trying to replicate the above observation (Arabic Automatic Speech recognition shows mix of English/Other languages)
Issue
Current assumption is you are doing Batch transcription (Batch speech to text) for multiple Arabian recording.
Repro
Test with Real time /Batch speech to text with an audio generated from Azure speech services, correctly transcribe the audio as shown in below screenshot
Recommendation
We normally recommend customer to use high quality audio recording and go for custom speech model to finetune the results according to scenario if the default base models are not recognizing properly.
Ask
Could you provide the documentation from Azure Speech along region, model details.
Also, requesting few samples audio recording in private chat to replicate.
Thank you.
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Manas Mohanty 6,455 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2025-05-07T11:13:13.7133333+00:00 Hi Imran Ali
Could you please provide a sample audio file from your side to replicate the issue. I have tested few audio files from wikipedia but was not able to find any giberrish behavior as you mentioned.
Thank you.
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JAYA SHANKAR G S 4,035 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator2025-05-08T10:26:25.2366667+00:00 Hello Imran Ali,
I have tried with Arabic(Egypt) and it is working fine, please share you sample file in private message so that we can check from our end what's the issue is.
Thank you
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JAYA SHANKAR G S 4,035 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2025-05-09T08:09:30.8233333+00:00 Hello Imran Ali,
If you provide the input file it would be very helpful to investigate the issue.
Thank you
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