Updated readme with some intro and how-to along with some icon setups

README.md

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+short_description: Open community space for pushing Arabic speech research.
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-# Arabic Speech
+# ArabicSpeech
 
-We are a community that runs for the benefit of **Arabic Speech Science** and **Speech Technologies**. Arabic speech is concerned with technologies in speech and language processing. Our main focus will be the **Arabic language**, both **Standard** and **Dialectal**.
+We welcome **everyone working on Arabic speech**  - researchers, engineers, students, and practitioners, to use this space to share or link your models, datasets, benchmarks, tools, and demos.
+**Our goal** is a **central, open repository** spanning Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Arabic dialects (Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf, Maghrebi, etc.) across tasks such as ASR, TTS, and more.
+Publish your work here so the community can discover, reuse, compare, and build on it. 
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+<!-- Let us all help to push the boundaries for Arabic speech to make it **world-class technology**. -->
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+<!-- Arabic speech is concerned with technologies in speech and language processing. Our main focus will be the **Arabic language**, both **Standard** and **Dialectal**. -->
 
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 # Mission
 
-**ArabicSpeech** will help to build innovation and technology capacities for the Arabic language. It will focus on tackling large-scale computing challenges that address real priorities that will impact people's lives. We address both the **state of the art** and the **state of the market** challenges. We help to push the boundaries for Arabic speech to make it **world-class technology**.
+**ArabicSpeech** began as a volunteer and community effort to catalog Arabic speech resources and grew into a community hub for MSA and dialects. Over time, it expanded from curated lists to open datasets, benchmarks, and models, --- now hosted on Hugging Face, welcoming everyone to share, reuse, and build together.
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+# How to share (quick)
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+## Option 1 — Upload in the **ArabicSpeech** space
+- Create a **Model/Dataset/Space** under **ArabicSpeech**.
+- Add a license and tags (`arabic`, `msa`/dialect, task).
+- Include a short README (what, usage, citation).
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+## Option 2 — Add to an **ArabicSpeech** Collection
+- Create a **Collection** under **ArabicSpeech**.
+- Add links to HF repos or external resources (GitHub/Zenodo/papers) with a one-line note.
+- Tag, publish, and share the Collection link.