This paper describes the Arabic MGB-3 Challenge - Arabic Speech Recognition
in the Wild. Unlike last year's Arabic MGB-2 Challenge, for which the
recognition task was based on more than 1,200 hours broadcast TV news
recordings from Aljazeera Arabic TV programs, MGB-3 emphasises dialectal Arabic
using a multi-genre collection of Egyptian YouTube videos. Seven genres were
used for the data collection: comedy, cooking, family/kids, fashion, drama,
sports, and science (TEDx). A total of 16 hours of videos, split evenly across
the different genres, were divided into adaptation, development and evaluation
data sets. The Arabic MGB-Challenge comprised two tasks: A) Speech
transcription, evaluated on the MGB-3 test set, along with the 10 hour MGB-2
test set to report progress on the MGB-2 evaluation; B) Arabic dialect
identification, introduced this year in order to distinguish between four major
Arabic dialects - Egyptian, Levantine, North African, Gulf, as well as Modern
Standard Arabic. Two hours of audio per dialect were released for development
and a further two hours were used for evaluation. For dialect identification,
both lexical features and i-vector bottleneck features were shared with
participants in addition to the raw audio recordings. Overall, thirteen teams
submitted ten systems to the challenge. We outline the approaches adopted in
each system, and summarise the evaluation results
