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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has achieved strong performance in high-resource languages; however, Dialectal Arabic remains significantly under-resourced. This gap is particularly evident in Oman, where Arabic exhibits substantial sociolinguistic variation shaped by settlement patterns between sedentary (Hadari) and nomadic (Badu) communities, which are often overlooked by urbancentric or generalized Gulf Arabic datasets. We introduce OMAN-SPEECH, a sociolinguistically stratified spoken corpus for Omani Arabic comprising approximately 40 hours of spontaneous and semi-spontaneous speech from 32 speakers across 11 Wilayats (provinces). The corpus is balanced to capture regional and lifestyle variation and is annotated at the sentence level with Arabic transcription, English translation, and phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) through a human-in-the-loop annotation pipeline. OMAN-SPEECH provides a foundational resource for evaluating ASR and related speech technologies on Omani and Gulf Arabic varieties and supports more granular modeling of regional dialectal variation.
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The objective of the present work is to create a geospatial map that assesses the risk of flooding in the Oud M’zab region, by integrating various parameters derived from remote sensing data (soil and land use land cover) and multi-source data (including topography, hydrographic networks, and lithology). Flooding is a significant concern in various sectors, including industrial, urbanization, hydraulic works, and road structures. This study focuses on hydrological modelling approaches to simulate flooding areas in the Oued M’zab region, bases on a peak flow and recorded flood data to obtain a preliminary assessment of potential flooding.In order to validate the hydrological consistency of this work, the HEC-RAS 1D tools were employed. The result of this analysis revealed four flood risk classes, ranging from low to high risk. The risk of flooding is particularly higher in the area where the banks and the river-beds are occupied by the urban population, while it tends to decrease while moving away from Oued and valley.