Arabic speech-to-text API

Real-time and async Arabic speech-to-text API that keeps up with how people actually talk. Handles regional accents, fast speech, and code-switching mid-sentence. Live in production in under a day.

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Why Arabic matters

480M+

people speak Arabic

Arabic is an official language in more than 20 states and territories across the Middle East and North Africa. Gulf economies like Saudi Arabia and the UAE are investing heavily in digital services, which makes it one of the highest-value voice markets in the world.

Reach Arabic speakers wherever they are

Supporting Arabic lets you serve customers from Morocco to the Gulf, and reach Arabic-speaking communities in France, Germany, and North America, with one product instead of a separate build for each dialect region.

Arabic with a side of English? Handled.

People rarely stick to one language. Gladia follows Arabic speakers when they switch mid-sentence, so your transcripts stay clean.

Code-switching

Use cases

What teams build with Arabic transcription

Whatever you're building, Arabic shouldn't be the thing that slows it down.

Meeting assistants

Teams in Dubai and Riyadh bring together Egyptian, Levantine, and Gulf speakers in one call, so notes need to handle several dialects at once.

Meeting assistants →

Contact centers (CCaaS)

Outsourcing hubs in Egypt and Morocco handle Arabic support for regional and Gulf brands, at call volumes QA teams can't review manually.

CCaaS →

Voice agents

Nobody grows up speaking Modern Standard Arabic, so callers use their local dialect, and voice agents have to understand real speech, not textbook Arabic.

Voice agents →

Media & content

Egyptian films and series have long traveled across the Arab world, and streamers need subtitles that work for viewers from Casablanca to Baghdad.

Media →

Supported languages

Multilingual since day one

Being multilingual has been our priority since day one. Gladia supports 100 languages, with code-switching and automatic language detection integrated into all models by default.

EnglishEN
SpanishES
FrenchFR
GermanDE
ItalianIT
PortuguesePT
ChineseZH
HindiHI
ArabicAR
JapaneseJA
DutchNL
PolishPL
AfrikaansAF
AlbanianSQ
AmharicAM
ArmenianHY
AssameseAS
AzerbaijaniAZ
BashkirBA
BasqueEU
BelarusianBE
BengaliBN
BosnianBS
BretonBR
BulgarianBG
CatalanCA
CroatianHR
CzechCS
DanishDA
EstonianET
FaroeseFO
FinnishFI
GalicianGL
GeorgianKA
GreekEL
GujaratiGU
Haitian CreoleHT
HausaHA
HawaiianHAW
HebrewHE
HungarianHU
IcelandicIS
IndonesianID
JavaneseJW
KannadaKN
KazakhKK
KhmerKM
KoreanKO
LaoLO
LatinLA
LatvianLV
LingalaLN
LithuanianLT
LuxembourgishLB
MacedonianMK
MalagasyMG
MalayMS
MalayalamML
MalteseMT
MaoriMI
MarathiMR
MongolianMN
MyanmarMY
NepaliNE
NorwegianNO
NynorskNN
OccitanOC
PashtoPS
PersianFA
PunjabiPA
RomanianRO
RussianRU
SanskritSA
SerbianSR
ShonaSN
SindhiSD
SinhalaSI
SlovakSK
SlovenianSL
SomaliSO
SundaneseSU
SwahiliSW
SwedishSV
TagalogTL
TajikTG
TamilTA
TatarTT
TeluguTE
ThaiTH
TibetanBO
TurkishTR
TurkmenTK
UkrainianUK
UrduUR
UzbekUZ
VietnameseVI
WelshCY
WolofWO
YiddishYI
YorubaYO
See all languages

Your Arabic-speaking users are waiting

Ship Arabic voice features with an API built for messy, real-world conversations.

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