Arabic speech-to-text API
STT API for real-time and async Arabic transcription in voice agents, dictation, and meeting notes. With speaker diarization, end-of-turn detection, and mid-sentence code-switching between Arabic and 60+ other supported languages.
$0.10/hour async · $0.12/hour real-time
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Arabic speech recognition for production voice apps
Arabic is spoken by more than 422 million people across Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria, Sudan, Iraq, Morocco, Yemen, and beyond. If your voice agent, dictation app, or meeting notetaker serves them, speech-to-text has to handle Arabic the way people actually speak it: regional accents, speakers who switch to English mid-sentence, and names, numbers, and IDs that have to come out exactly right.
Soniox STT transcribes Arabic with native-speaker accuracy in real time over a WebSocket or asynchronously from recorded files, through one multilingual API built for 60+ languages. It follows speakers into other languages, labels who said what, and returns timestamps. Transcription biasing toward Arabic is available through the language hints option.
Arabic native-speaker accuracy
Accurate Arabic speech recognition across accents, dialects, and real-world conversational speech.
“We tried a dozen speech-to-text and translation services. Soniox is the best, so that's what we use.”
Cayden Pierce, CEO/CTO at MentraAutomatically detect and switch languages with Arabic
Soniox identifies the language automatically and follows changes between Arabic and other languages live, even within the same sentence.
Get every character right in Arabic
Names, phone numbers, addresses, IDs, serial numbers, and other structured information spoken in Arabic are recognized precisely.
Phone number
رقمي هو +49 172 684 9317.
Reference ID
رقم القضية هو AX-4927-B.
Mixed alphanumeric
الرقم التسلسلي للجهاز هو XR8Q-19F2.
International name
سينضم Nguyễn Minh Anh إلى الاجتماع في الساعة الثالثة.
Improve Arabic accuracy with context
Provide terminology, names, or custom vocabulary to guide Arabic recognition toward the right words, without retraining models.
Know when the speaker is finished
Soniox detects when a Arabic speaker has actually completed their thought, not just when they pause.
Know who said what in Arabic
Soniox separates Arabic speakers in real time, so every word stays connected to the person who said it.
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Arabic speech-to-text API pricing
1,000 hours of audio / month
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Based on public pay-as-you-go pricing. Enterprise discounts and committed-use contracts may differ. Some providers charge separately for certain features. The calculator uses the public price for the provider configuration that most closely matches Soniox.
Speech infrastructure for massive scale
Build on one API and deploy in your region
Use the same models and API everywhere, with in-region processing to meet latency, data residency, and regulatory requirements.
Available: US, EU, Japan, India
Coming soon: Korea, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, UK, Brazil
Run mission-critical systems with confidence
- 99.9% uptime
Production-hardened infrastructure with monitoring and redundancy. - low-latency streaming
Process speech in real time with low latency for responsive voice applications. - Priority support
Severity-based incident response with direct access to the Soniox team.
"Before Soniox, our international users always had a noticeably different experience. Now accuracy and responsiveness match across all regions…it feels like one system instead of five."
Alon Yair CTO of Onvego
Arabic speech-to-text use cases
Soniox is built for Arabic voice applications where accuracy, latency, and reliability matter at scale.
Voice agents
Streaming Arabic recognition that knows when the speaker has finished, so agents reply at the right moment.
Voice dictation
Real-time Arabic dictation that writes names, numbers, and codes exactly as spoken.
Meeting notes
Arabic meeting transcripts with speaker labels and timestamps, ready for summaries.
Call center
Real-time transcription, agent assist, and searchable records for every Arabic customer interaction.
Medical transcription
Transcription of Arabic clinical speech, including specialist terminology and patient documentation.
Speech translation
Real-time or async translation of spoken Arabic into 60+ languages.
Start transcribing Arabic speech from $0.10 per hour of audio.
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Soniox integrates seamlessly with leading real-time communication platforms, AI frameworks, automation tools, and developer SDKs.
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Go global with one API
Get production-ready speech-to-text recognition, transcription, and translation in 60+ languages.
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Privacy and compliance, built right in
Never stored, never saved.
Audio stays in memory, everything is processed in real-time.
Built for privacy-critical use cases.
Adhering to leading global security, privacy, and compliance standards.
Trusted where privacy matters most.
Used in industries where speech is sensitive, from healthcare to enterprise.
Frequently asked questions
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Does Soniox support real-time translation from and to Arabic?
Can Soniox recognize numbers, names, and alphanumerics in Arabic?
Does Soniox support speaker diarization in Arabic?
Can I improve accuracy for domain-specific Arabic audio?
Where is Arabic speech data processed, and is it used for training?
Is Soniox ready for production Arabic workloads?
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