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Revolutionary Framework Clones Arabic Voices in Real-Time

2/28/2026

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Habibi is an open-source framework for unified-dialectal Arabic speech synthesis developed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s X-LANCE Lab.
Led by Chen Yushen, the team claims Habibi is the first framework of its kind due to limited prior research.
The findings were published on arXiv, a non-peer-reviewed platform.
Habibi features a zero-shot capability to clone voices from short audio clips for real-time applications.

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Story summary

Habibi is an open-source framework for unified-dialectal Arabic speech synthesis developed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s X-LANCE Lab.
Led by Chen Yushen, the team claims Habibi is the first framework of its kind due to limited prior research.
The findings were published on arXiv, a non-peer-reviewed platform.
Habibi features a zero-shot capability to clone voices from short audio clips for real-time applications.