Techniques of Quran reciters recognition: a review

Abstract

The Quran is the holy book of the Islam. Reading and listening to the Quran is an important part of the daily life of Muslims. Muslims are keen to listen to recitations of Quran by skilled reciters to learn the correct recitation for the purpose of understanding and contemplating. Therefore, there are large variety of audio recitations for many skilled reciters. With the availability of this huge amount of recitations and also with the great progress in voice recognition technologies, many research efforts have been devoted to contribute making recitation better using artificial intelligence. One useful application in this area is identifying the reciters of the Quran. There are various solutions introduced by researchers; however, these solutions vary significantly in terms of accuracy, and efficiency. This research seeks to provide a review of these solutions. It also reviews available datasets using different criteria. Finally, some open issues and challenges were addressed.