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| ## Overview | |
| Iqra'Eval is a shared task aimed at advancing **automatic assessment of Qur'anic recitation pronunciation at the phoneme level** by leveraging computational methods to detect and diagnose pronunciation errors. The focus on Qur'anic recitation provides a standardized and well-defined context for evaluating modern standard Arabic pronunciation. | |
| Participants will develop systems capable of Detecting Mispronunciations (e.g., substitution, deletion, or insertion **of phonemes**). | |
| ## 🔗 Full Task Description | |
| For a complete overview of the Iqra'Eval shared task—including background, data details, evaluation setup, and submission instructions—please visit the official Hugging Face Space: | |
| 👉 [**IqraEval Challenge @ InterSpeech26**](https://huggingface.co/spaces/IqraEval/IqraEval_Interspeech_26) | |
| You can also read our paper: | |
| 📄 [**Towards a Unified Benchmark for Arabic Pronunciation Assessment: Quranic Recitation as Case Study**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07722) | |
| For inquiries and support, reach out to the task coordinators at [iqraeval@googlegroups.com](mailto:iqraeval@googlegroups.com). | |
| ## Registration opens on **December 1st, 2025** | |
| Teams and individual participants must register to gain access to the test set. Please complete the registration form using the link below: [**Registration Form**](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDyEP7vzJnpvthiEK6WPws2vpuI_yqbzOzEVqHKs0wdDY_Lg/viewform) | |
| ## Organizers | |
| The following individuals are organizing this shared task: | |
| - **Yassine El Kheir**; *DFKI & Technical University of Berlin* <!--; 📧 yassine.el_kheir@dfki.de --> | |
| - **Amit Meghanani**; *University of Sheffield* <!--; 📧 ameghanani1@sheffield.ac.uk --> | |
| - **Mostafa Shahin**; *University of New South Wales* <!--; 📧 mostafa.shahin@ieee.org --> | |
| - **Omnia Ibrahim**; *Alexandria University* <!--; 📧 omniaabdo89@gmail.com --> | |
| - **Hawau Olamide Toyin**; *MBZUAI* <!--; 📧 hawau.toyin@mbzuai.ac.ae --> | |
| - **Shammur Absar Chowdhury**; *QCRI* <!--; 📧 schowdhury@hbku.edu.qa --> | |
| - **Nada AlMarwani**; *Taibah University* <!--; 📧 nmarwani@taibahu.edu.sa --> | |
| - **Youssef Elshahawy**; *HUMAIN* <!--; 📧 ameghanani1@sheffield.ac.uk --> | |
| - **Ahmed Ali**; *HUMAIN* <!--; 📧 ahmed.email.ali@ieee.org --> | |
| <!-- ## 📅 Timeline | |
| | Date | Milestone | | |
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| | **June 1, 2025** | Official announcement of the shared task | | |
| | **June 10, 2025** | Release of training data, development set, phonetizer script, and baseline systems | | |
| | **July 24, 2025** | Registration deadline and release of test data | | |
| | **July 27, 2025** | End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes) | | |
| | **July 30, 2025** | Final results released | | |
| | **August 15, 2025** | Paper submission deadline | | |
| | **August 22, 2025** | Notification of acceptance | | |
| | **September 5, 2025** | Camera-ready submission | |
| --> | |
| <!-- ## Description | |
| The Iqra’Eval shared task focuses on automatic mispronunciation detection and diagnosis in Qur’anic recitation. Given a speech segment and its corresponding fully vowelized reference transcript, the goal is to identify **phoneme** pronunciation errors. --> | |