Arabic speech-to-text
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Fast and accurate Arabic speech recognition for real-world audio
Get real-time Arabic speech-to-text in under 300 ms while maintaining high accuracy in noisy, accented, or overlapping conversations.
Arabic language overview
Speakers: 400 million total speakers
Regions: Middle East, North Africa, Horn of Africa (Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, UAE, and 16 other countries)
Dialects: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Gulf Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic, Iraqi Arabic
Writing system: Arabic script (right-to-left alphabetic system)
Language family: Semitic language family, Afro-Asiatic group
Arabic is widely used across the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula, making it a key language for call center analytics, customer support AI, media captioning and broadcasting, healthcare documentation, legal and government services, financial services, multilingual voice agents, and telecommunications.
Arabic speech-to-text capabilities
Diarization
Automatically detect and label who is speaking in multi-speaker Arabic conversations.
Smart formatting
Apply automatic capitalization, paragraphing, and clean transcript structure for Arabic text.
Search
Instantly find words or phrases inside long Arabic recordings without reprocessing audio.
Utterances
Segment streaming Arabic audio into real-time sentence-level units for voice agents.
Punctuation
Add accurate punctuation and capitalization to Arabic transcripts for easy reading.
Redaction
Automatically remove sensitive data like credit cards, phone numbers, and PII from Arabic transcripts.
Keyterm prompting for Arabic
Boost recognition of brand names, product terms, and domain-specific vocabulary in Arabic audio to improve keyword recall and transcript accuracy.
Voice AI that performs in the real world
Low latency. Effortless scale. Production-grade reliability. Everything you need to build and run real-time voice experiences.
Domain-aware speech
Understand specialized terminology, names, accents, and industry-specific language with production-grade accuracy.
Expressive voices
Give every interaction a natural, consistent voice that adapts its tone when the conversation changes.
Context-aware delivery
Carry meaning, tone, and conversational state across turns so agents listen and respond more naturally.
Scale beyond Arabic with one API
Start with Arabic speech-to-text, then expand to 45+ languages using the same API, models, and tooling.
FAQ
Speech-to-text (also called automatic speech recognition, or ASR) converts spoken Arabic audio into written text. Deepgram processes the audio signal, detects speech in real time, and returns structured transcript data through an API. Developers use it for applications like voice agents, call analytics, captioning, and searchable media.
Yes. Deepgram supports automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Arabic audio. You can transcribe real-time or prerecorded audio by setting `language=ar` in your API request.
Deepgram supports Arabic in the Nova model family. Model availability may vary by language, so check the Models & Languages page for the latest support details.
Yes. Deepgram provides low-latency streaming transcription for Arabic, suitable for live voice agents, call analytics, captioning, and other real-time applications.
Deepgram offers automatic language detection for many languages. You can enable it with `detect_language=true`. See the Language Detection documentation for the full list of supported languages.
Yes. Deepgram supports multilingual transcription and code-switching when using Nova's multilingual models. Set `language=multi` to enable it. See the Models & Languages page for supported languages.
Deepgram supports timestamps, punctuation, diarization, numeral formatting, filler-word detection, redaction, and more — all through the API.
Accuracy depends on model choice, audio quality, and domain. Nova models deliver state-of-the-art accuracy, and you can improve results further using Keyterm Prompting or Custom Models.
Sign up for a free Deepgram account to access your API key. You can test Arabic transcription instantly in the Playground, or call the API directly by sending audio to `/v1/listen` with `language=ar`. Starter apps and code examples are available on GitHub.
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