Transcribe Arabic audio to text
Upload an Arabic recording and get an editable right-to-left transcript with timestamps and speaker labels, ready to export as text or subtitles.
Spoken language
العربية
What Arabic looks like on the page
يبدأ الاجتماع في الساعة التاسعة. EN The meeting starts at nine. An example sentence for illustration, not transcript output.
Notes on Arabic
- Script
- Arabic script, written right to left
- Spoken varieties
- Modern Standard Arabic plus regional dialects such as Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf and Maghrebi
- Short vowels
- Usually not written in everyday text, so a transcript normally omits diacritics
Arabic is written right to left, and a good transcript has to respect that. In the editor each line keeps its own direction, so an Arabic sentence that contains a brand name in Latin letters or a year in digits stays readable instead of scrambling around the punctuation.
The harder question for most recordings is which Arabic is being spoken. Broadcast news and lectures tend to use Modern Standard Arabic, while everyday conversation, interviews and voice notes lean on a regional dialect. The gap between the two can be wide, and speakers often drift between them within a single answer. Accuracy varies with audio quality, accents and background noise, so it helps to listen back to the passages where a speaker changes register.
Names deserve a second look. The same Arabic name can be romanised several ways, and place names in a transcript may follow a spelling you did not intend. Because the transcript is editable, with timestamps and speaker labels, you can fix a name once and move on. Originals are deleted within 24 hours and your recordings are never used for training.
Questions
Does the transcript read right to left?
Yes. Arabic text is displayed right to left in the editor, and numbers and any embedded Latin words keep their own direction inside the line.
What about recordings that mix Arabic with French or English?
Many speakers switch languages mid-sentence, especially in North Africa and the Gulf. Mixed audio is harder to transcribe than single-language audio, so review the switch points in the editor.
Will the transcript include diacritics?
Everyday Arabic is written without short-vowel marks, and transcripts follow that habit. If you need fully vowelled text for teaching or Quran study, plan to add the marks by hand.
Can I get subtitles for an Arabic video?
Yes. Export SRT or VTT from the editor and check line breaks, since right-to-left subtitles are sensitive to punctuation placement.
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