AI/ML engineer building production LLM systems — multi-agent orchestration, retrieval over messy enterprise data, and knowledge graphs.https://ai-zahran.github.io/enhttps://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/a-brief-history-of-asr/https://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/a-brief-history-of-asr/This moment has been a long time coming. The technology behind speech recognition has been in development for over half a century, going through several periods…Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMTasrspeechspeech-recognitionspeech-processingdescriptreposthistoryhttps://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/arabic-asr/https://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/arabic-asr/In this page we will summarize the components of the Arabic ASR project, including the training process and the pipeline, and the pipeline which takes as input a…Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMTgsocredhenlabdialect-identificationarabichttps://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/arabic-asr-and-di/https://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/arabic-asr-and-di/In this post, we will summarize the work done on Arabic speech recognition and Arabic dialect identification projects for RedHenLab as part of GSoC 2018. Each of…Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMTgsocredhenlabdialect-identificationarabichttps://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/arabic-di/https://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/arabic-di/In this page, we will summarize the contents of the Arabic dialect identification project. We will discuss the training process and the transformations applied…Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMTgsocredhenlabdialect-identificationarabichttps://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/weeks-9-10-dialect-identification-base/https://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/weeks-9-10-dialect-identification-base/In Weeks 9 and 10, I continued to work on the speech recognition system, while working in parallel in the dialect identification task.Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTgsocredhenlabdialect-identificationarabichttps://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/week-8-gale-arabic-on-case-hpc/https://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/week-8-gale-arabic-on-case-hpc/It's week 8 of my GSoC project with Red Hen Lab. As mentioned in an earlier post, running the system on Case HPC is one of the main goals of this GSoC project. I…Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTgsocredhenlabspeech-recognitonarabichpchttps://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/week-7-arabic-speech-data/https://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/week-7-arabic-speech-data/Some licensing issues related to the MGB-2 data set resulted in the data not being available for a while (I wish I will be able to work with it before the end of…Sat, 30 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMTgsocredhenlabdialect-identificationhttps://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/week-7-dialect-identification/https://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/week-7-dialect-identification/Sixth week coding my Google Summer of Code project with Red Hen Lab. I decided to use the time to go into the dialect identification task while the training…Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMTgsocredhenlabdialect-identificationhttps://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/week-5-case-hpc/https://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/week-5-case-hpc/Hello! This is my fifth week coding my Google Summer of Code project with Red Hen Lab. One of the goals of this project is to implement the code on Case HPC,…Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMTgsocredhenlabhpcsingularityslurmhttps://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/week-4-acoustic-modeling/https://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/week-4-acoustic-modeling/Fourth week coding my Google Summer of Code project with Red Hen Lab. Obtaining the data turned out to be a bit tricker than I thought (due to some license…Sat, 09 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMTspeecharabicgsocredhenlabacoustic-modelkaldihttps://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/week-1-language-modeling/https://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/week-1-language-modeling/This is my first week coding my Google Summer of Code project with Red Hen Lab. My first task will be preparing the language model to use for decoding.Mon, 14 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTspeecharabicgsocredhenlablanguage-modelvariknhttps://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/spending-this-summer-in-gsoc-with-red-hen-lab/https://ai-zahran.github.io/blog/spending-this-summer-in-gsoc-with-red-hen-lab/I am thrilled to announce that I will be participating in GSoC this year with Red Hen Lab. My mentors for this project will include Professor Mark Turner and…Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTspeecharabicgsocredhenlablanguage-modeling