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Hawau Olamide Toyin

hawau.toyin@mbzuai.ac.ae

* means equal contribution, shared co-first authorship. Papers ordered chronologically.

Conference Papers

  1. ArVoice: A Multi-Speaker Dataset for Arabic Speech Synthesis. HO Toyin*,RF Marew, H Alblooshi, S Magdy, H Aldarmaki. Interspeech 2025
  2. Dialectal Coverage And Generalization in Arabic Speech Recognition. A Djanibekov*,HO Toyin*, R Alshalan, A Alitr, H Aldarmaki. ACL 2025
  3. Where Are We? Evaluating LLM Performance on African Languages. I Adebara, HO Toyin, NT Ghebremichael, AR Elmadany, M Abdul-Mageed. ACL 2025
  4. Infant Cry Detection Using Causal Temporal Representation. M Fu, D Li, ...,HO Toyin*, ..., H Aldarmaki. ICASSP 2025
  5. Exploring the Limitations of Detecting Machine-Generated Text. J Doughman, OM Afzal, HO Toyin, S Shehata, P Nakov, Z Talat. COLING 2025
  6. STTATTS: Unified Speech-To-Text And Text-To-Speech Model. HO Toyin, H Li, H Aldarmaki. EMNLP 2024 findings.
  7. PolyWER: A Holistic Evaluation Framework for Code-Switched Speech Recognition. K Kadaoui, M Ali, HO Toyin, I Mohammed, H Aldarmaki. EMNLP 2024 findings.
  8. ArTST: Arabic Text and Speech Transformer. HO Toyin*, A Djanibekov*, A Kulkarni, H Aldarmaki. ArabicNLP 2023. Best Paper Award.

Presentations

  1. Research Presentation: Arabic Multimodal Language Modeling. ISTI-CNR 2025.

About

Hi, I'm Hawau. I'm a PhD student in Natural Language Processing at MBZUAI, specializing in speech modeling.