Rabat – Many Moroccans hold the belief that most foreigners need not learn Darija, Morocco’s most widespread, though unofficial, tongue. This is because Darija is a complex blend of Arabic and ...

Rabat – A recent survey by the Moroccan research firm Sunergia sheds light on how languages influence daily life across the country in 2025. While Darija remains central to communication for all ...

The Spanish veteran is a delight as a lifelong Tangier resident forced out of her home — and forcing her way back into it — in Maryam Touzani's soft-centered crowdpleaser. It is also an ode, even more ...

JavaScript is a great language. It has a simple syntax, large ecosystem and, what is most important, a great community. At the same time, we all know that JavaScript is quite a funny language with ...

Our research worked to understand and improve people's access to weather and climate information in Algeria When wildfires strike, people need reliable weather and climate information to prepare, cope ...

A 13-year-old girl, Darija Mihajlovic, who had been reported missing to the police has been found safe and sound, the police said Saturday. The girst was found a few hours after the police issued a ...

DJANET, Algeria (AP) — In one hand, the dancers hold swords symbolizing battle. In the other, a piece of cloth symbolizing peace. They dance a shuffling “step-step” to the beat of drums and chanting ...

Abstract: This study evaluates the performance of advanced speech-to-text translation models—Whisper large-v3, SeamlessM4T, and S2T—fine-tuned on the Darija-C corpus to translate Darija speech into ...

Abstract: This study explores the fine-tuning of six versions of the Whisper model for speech translation from Moroccan Darija to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). We focus on fine-tuning Whisper across ...

Although spoken by millions of Moroccans, Darija is underrepresented digitally. In this context, Moroccan and international researchers have developed Atlas-Chat: the first artificial intelligence (AI ...