Kingfisher: A hybrid LLM-augmented Bangla text normalization for enhanced text-to-speech.

Arif Ahmad

Rajan Saha Raju Arif Ahmad Muhammad Shahidur Rahman Kingfisher: A hybrid LLM-augmented Bangla text normalization for enhanced text-to-speech. 2026 100201 14 Nat. Lang. Process. J. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlp.2026.100201 db/journals/nlpj/nlpj14.html#RajuAR26 streams/journals/nlpj

Arif Ahmad Mothika Gayathri Khyathi Pushpak Bhattacharyya Looks can be Deceptive: Distinguishing Repetition Disfluency from Reduplication. 214-229 2025 COLING https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.15/ conf/coling/2025 db/conf/coling/coling2025.html#AhmadKB25

Md Obyedullahil Mamun Md Adyelullahil Mamun Arif Ahmad Md. Imran Hossain Emu Restoring Rhythm: Punctuation Restoration Using Transformer Models for Bangla, a Low-Resource Language. 2025 July abs/2507.18448 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.18448 db/journals/corr/corr2507.html#abs-2507-18448 streams/journals/corr

Jiannan Xiang Yi Gu 0002 Zihan Liu Zeyu Feng Qiyue Gao Yiyan Hu Benhao Huang Guangyi Liu 0005 Yichi Yang Kun Zhou Davit Abrahamyan Arif Ahmad Ganesh Bannur Junrong Chen Kimi Chen Mingkai Deng Ruobing Han Xinqi Huang Haoqiang Kang Zheqi Li Enze Ma Hector Ren Yashowardhan Shinde Rohan Shingre Ramsundar Tanikella Kaiming Tao Dequan Yang Xinle Yu Cong Zeng Binglin Zhou Hector Liu Zhiting Hu Eric P. Xing PAN: A World Model for General, Interactable, and Long-Horizon World Simulation. 2025 November abs/2511.09057 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.09057 db/journals/corr/corr2511.html#abs-2511-09057 streams/journals/corr

Md. Rezaul Islam Arif Ahmad Muhammad Shahidur Rahman Bangla text normalization for text-to-speech synthesizer using machine learning algorithms. 101807 2024 January 36 J. King Saud Univ. Comput. Inf. Sci. 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jksuci.2023.101807 db/journals/jksucis/jksucis36.html#IslamAR24

Nihar R. Sahoo Pranamya Prashant Kulkarni Arif Ahmad Tanu Goyal Narjis Asad Aparna Garimella Pushpak Bhattacharyya IndiBias: A Benchmark Dataset to Measure Social Biases in Language Models for Indian Context. 8786-8806 2024 NAACL-HLT https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-long.487 conf/naacl/2024 db/conf/naacl/naacl2024.html#SahooKAGAGB24 Nithish Kannen Arif Ahmad Marco Andreetto Vinodkumar Prabhakaran Utsav Prabhu Adji Bousso Dieng Pushpak Bhattacharyya Shachi Dave Beyond Aesthetics: Cultural Competence in Text-to-Image Models. 2024 NeurIPS http://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/hash/18c669b80d1a8f589713b768bc8fe9a4-Abstract-Datasets_and_Benchmarks_Track.html conf/nips/2024 db/conf/nips/neurips2024.html#KannenAAPPDBD24

Nihar Ranjan Sahoo Pranamya Prashant Kulkarni Narjis Asad Arif Ahmad Tanu Goyal Aparna Garimella Pushpak Bhattacharyya IndiBias: A Benchmark Dataset to Measure Social Biases in Language Models for Indian Context. 2024 abs/2403.20147 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.20147 db/journals/corr/corr2403.html#abs-2403-20147

Nithish Kannen Arif Ahmad Marco Andreetto Vinodkumar Prabhakaran Utsav Prabhu Adji Bousso Dieng Pushpak Bhattacharyya Shachi Dave Beyond Aesthetics: Cultural Competence in Text-to-Image Models. 2024 abs/2407.06863 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.06863 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128211038 db/journals/corr/corr2407.html#abs-2407-06863 streams/journals/corr

Arif Ahmad Mothika Gayathri Khyathi Pushpak Bhattacharyya Looks can be Deceptive: Distinguishing Repetition Disfluency from Reduplication. 2024 abs/2407.08147 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.08147 db/journals/corr/corr2407.html#abs-2407-08147 streams/journals/corr

Prithwiraj Bhattacharjee Rajan Saha Raju Arif Ahmad M. Shahidur Rahman End to End Bangla Speech Synthesis. 2021 abs/2108.00500 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00500 db/journals/corr/corr2108.html#abs-2108-00500

Davit Abrahamyan Marco Andreetto Narjis Asad Ganesh Bannur Prithwiraj Bhattacharjee Pushpak Bhattacharyya Junrong Chen Kimi Chen Shachi Dave Mingkai Deng Adji B. DiengAdji Bousso Dieng Md. Imran Hossain Emu Zeyu Feng Qiyue Gao Aparna Garimella Tanu Goyal Yi Gu 0002 Ruobing Han Yiyan Hu Zhiting Hu Benhao Huang Xinqi Huang Md. Rezaul Islam Haoqiang Kang Nithish Kannen Mothika Gayathri Khyathi Pranamya Prashant Kulkarni Zheqi Li Guangyi Liu 0005 Zhengzhong Liu 0001Hector Liu Zihan Liu Enze Ma Md Adyelullahil Mamun Md Obyedullahil Mamun Vinodkumar Prabhakaran Utsav Prabhu M. Shahidur RahmanMuhammad Shahidur Rahman Rajan Saha Raju Hector Ren Nihar R. SahooNihar Ranjan Sahoo Yashowardhan Shinde Rohan Shingre Ramsundar Tanikella Kaiming Tao Jiannan Xiang Eric P. Xing Dequan Yang Yichi Yang Xinle Yu Cong Zeng Binglin Zhou Kun Zhou