Turn Arabic meetings, interviews and lectures into right-to-left text with speaker labels — in Modern Standard Arabic and in the Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine and Maghrebi dialects.
iOS and Android. 30 minutes free, no card.
Does SozAI transcribe Arabic?
SozAI transcribes Arabic audio and video into text in Modern Standard Arabic and in the Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine and Maghrebi dialects. It labels each speaker automatically, timestamps every word, writes the transcript right-to-left in the Arabic script, and exports to TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT and VTT. Recordings are processed in EU data centers and encrypted at rest, and every account gets 30 minutes a month without a card.
العربية, written the way it is actually written.
Specification
| Native name | العربية |
|---|---|
| ISO 639-1 code | ar |
| Writing system | Arabic (abjad) |
| Text direction | Right to left |
| Speakers worldwide | ~400 million |
| Varieties covered | Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine, Maghrebi |
| Speaker labels | Yes — automatic diarization |
| Timestamps | Word level |
| Summaries | Yes, in the same language |
| Export formats | TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT |
| Maximum file size | 500 MB |
| Free tier | 30 minutes per month, no card |
| Where data is stored | EU data centers, AES-256 at rest |
| Public transcripts in this language | 430 |
Workflow
Record straight into the app, upload a file up to 500 MB, or paste a YouTube link. SozAI reads m4a, mp3, wav, aac, mp4 and mov.
Choose Arabic when you already know the dialect, or leave detection on and SozAI identifies it from the first seconds of speech. Recordings that switch between Arabic and English stay in one transcript.
The transcript arrives right-to-left with speaker labels and word timestamps. Search it, ask it questions, generate a summary in Arabic, or export SRT and VTT subtitles.
Field notes
Almost nobody holds a conversation in Modern Standard Arabic. A Cairo meeting runs in Egyptian, a Beirut interview in Levantine, a Casablanca call in Darija — and all three are written down in the same script. A model trained mainly on broadcast MSA loses accuracy sharply on ordinary speech, which is why dialect coverage matters more here than a headline benchmark number.
Short vowels are written as harakat, and everyday Arabic text leaves them out entirely. The same three consonants can be a noun, an active verb or a passive verb depending on vowels nobody typed. SozAI writes undiacritized text, which is how Arabic is actually written, and resolves the ambiguity from context instead of adding harakat a reader would not expect to see.
Arabic transcripts routinely contain Latin brand names, product codes, URLs and Western numerals. Those run left-to-right inside a right-to-left paragraph, and tools that ignore the bidirectional algorithm scramble the order on export. SozAI keeps bidirectional runs intact in the app and in DOCX, SRT and VTT files.
Gulf business calls slip into English and Maghrebi conversation into French, often mid-sentence. Splitting that into two files loses the thread of the discussion. SozAI keeps a code-switched conversation in a single transcript, with each fragment written in its own script and in the order it was spoken.
From the archive
430 public Arabic transcripts so far — every one produced by the same engine described above. Read them in full, no account needed.
لمسات بيانية ( 004 ) سورة الفاتحة { إياك نعبد وإياك نست……
لمسات بيانية ( 003 ) سورة الفاتحة { الرحمن الرحيم * مال……
لمسات بيانية ( 002 ) سورة الفاتحة { رب العالمين } أ.د.…
لمسات بيانية ( 001 ) سورة الفاتحة { الحمد لله } أ.د.…
Deutsch lernen (A1): Ganzer Film auf Deutsch – “Nicos W… — Transcript
أصحاب السبت — TranscriptSozAI transcribes over 100 languages. These have a page of their own.
Answers
Short answers you can quote. Longer ones live in the sections above.
SozAI handles Modern Standard Arabic plus the major spoken varieties: Egyptian, Gulf (Khaliji), Levantine (Shami) and Maghrebi. You can set the dialect yourself or let automatic detection choose. Accuracy is highest on clear, single-speaker MSA and falls on heavy dialect recorded over poor audio, so microphone quality matters more in Arabic than it does in many other languages.
Yes. The transcript is written in the Arabic script and laid out right-to-left everywhere it appears: in the app, in search results, and in every export. Latin words, numerals and URLs inside an Arabic sentence keep their own direction, so a product name or a link does not come out reversed in your DOCX or SRT file.
Yes. Speaker diarization works on the audio rather than the language, so it separates voices in Arabic exactly as it does in English. Each turn gets a speaker label and a timestamp. For interviews, focus groups and depositions this is usually the difference between a transcript you can quote from and a wall of text.
SozAI exports Arabic subtitles as SRT and VTT with word-level timing. The files carry Arabic text in UTF-8 with bidirectional runs preserved, so they load correctly in YouTube, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve without manual re-ordering of mixed Arabic and Latin lines.
Code-switched recordings stay in one transcript. SozAI writes the Arabic in Arabic script and the English in Latin script, in the order they were spoken, rather than forcing everything into a single language. This is common in Gulf business calls and in university lectures, and splitting the file is almost never what you want.
Every account gets 30 minutes of transcription per month at no cost and without a card. Beyond that SozAI is a flat monthly subscription with a shared pool of minutes, and the price does not depend on the language — Arabic costs the same as English. Current plans are listed on the pricing page.
Where to use it
Everything below works in Arabic, with the same speaker labels and word timestamps.
Transcribe your first Arabic recording
Record, upload a file or paste a link. The transcript comes back right-to-left with speakers and timestamps.
Free on iOS and Android. No account required for YouTube transcripts.
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