Arabic audio to text,
as it was said.
Drop a recording and get the Arabic back word for word — Gulf and Levantine dialect kept, not rewritten into Modern Standard. Phone calls, voice notes, interviews and video.
- Your file stays in this browser until you sign in
- $5 free credit, about 33 hours
- No card
Most models hear dialect and write Modern Standard Arabic. This one writes what was said.
Highlighted words are dialect the model kept rather than flattening to Modern Standard Arabic. Audio: omnilingual ASR corpus, CC BY 4.0.
How to transcribe Arabic audio
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Drop the file
MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, a WhatsApp voice note, or MP4 and MOV video, up to 100 MB. It stays on your device.
- 02
Create a free account
The file waits in this browser while you sign up, and $5 of credit lands in your account. No card.
- 03
Read the transcript
Transcription starts the moment you are in. Copy the text, download it, or find it later in your history.
Built for the Arabic people actually speak
On a real, narrow-band phone call it made 40% fewer character errors than the leading Arabic vendor, across 986 clips scored against human transcripts. It runs 22× faster than realtime: an hour of audio in under three minutes.
Why most models lose the dialect- Dialects
- Gulf and Levantine, kept as spoken. Modern Standard Arabic too.
- Other languages
- 13 more, including English and French, detected per file
- Recordings
- Phone calls, voice notes, meetings, interviews, video soundtracks
- Files
- Any common audio or video format, up to 100 MB and four hours
- Speed
- An hour of audio in under three minutes
- Price
- $0.15 per hour of audio, billed by the second
- Privacy
- The recording is transcribed and discarded. Only the text is kept, until you delete it.
Arabic transcription, answered
Is Arabic transcription free?
You get $5 of credit when you sign up, with no card — about 33 hours of audio at $0.15 an hour. After that you top up for what you use. There is no subscription, and a request that fails is never billed.
Does it understand Gulf and Levantine dialect?
Yes — it is built for dialect. It writes the words that were spoken instead of converting them into Modern Standard Arabic, and it transcribes Modern Standard Arabic as well.
Can it transcribe phone calls and WhatsApp voice notes?
Yes. Narrow-band phone audio is where it was measured: 40% fewer character errors than the leading Arabic vendor on a real call-in. WhatsApp voice notes (.opus) and call recordings (.amr, .m4a) go in as they are.
Which file formats work, and how long can a recording be?
Any common audio or video format — MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG, OPUS, FLAC, MP4, MOV, WEBM and more — up to 100 MB and four hours per file.
What happens to my recording?
Until you sign in it never leaves your browser. After that it goes straight to our transcription server, where it is transcribed and discarded. The transcript is saved in your history so you can find it again, and you can delete it at any time.
Can I get subtitles with timestamps?
The transcript on this page is plain text. For subtitles, open your video in the nutq studio: it times the captions to the audio and exports them as SRT or VTT.
Which languages does it transcribe besides Arabic?
English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese. Leave the language on Detect and it works it out for each file.
Is there an API?
Yes. POST the file to /v1/transcribe with your key and the text comes back with exactly what it cost. Same model, same price.