Moroccan Dialect “Darija” Automatic Speech Recognition: A Survey

Abstract

Nowadays, human-machine interaction is growing swiftly, and Automatic Speech Recognition is gaining immense interest to make the daily routines much easier. This could be illustrated by the various applications of Speech Recognition in our daily lives, such as voice dictation, interactive voice response systems, device control, telephone applications, and others. Besides Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural language processing has gained significant improvements in terms of technologies and used approaches. Till today great results have been achieved in those Fields, especially for international languages such as English, Spanish, French, and Arabic. Whereas few results have been reached for dialects of languages such as the case of Moroccan dialect “Darija”. The growing use of Moroccan Darija on social media, videos, chatting and others, opens new research directions for Moroccan Darija speech recognition. The leading goal of this paper is to give a literature review on Moroccan Darija Automatic Speech Recognition. Through presenting the dialect specific constraints, the different works conducted in the field of Moroccan Darija speech recognition, and the progress made in recent years.