Live Arabic speech translation API

Translate Arabic speech to and from 60+ languages in real time. Low-latency streaming, 3,600 language pairs, and accurate translation for voice agents, live captioning, and multilingual apps.

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Production-ready Arabic speech translation API

Real conversations in Arabic include accents, regional dialects, code switching, and domain-specific vocabulary. Soniox is built to handle that variation in a single model, so live translation stays usable across regions and registers.

Soniox preserves formatting in the translated transcript, including names, numbers, addresses, IDs, and domain-specific terms.

Arabic belongs to the Afro-Asiatic > Semitic > Central Semitic family. Soniox translates between Arabic and related languages, as well as any of 60+ supported targets and 3,600 language pairs in total.

A breakthrough in real-time Arabic translation

config.json
{
  "model": "stt-rt-v5",
  "translation": {
    "type": "one_way",
    "target_language": "ar"
  }
}

Translate Arabic before the sentence ends

Meaning lands as it's spoken, not after the caption catches up.

Arabic paired with 60+ languages

Both source and target. 3,600 pairs total, not English-centric.

High quality Arabic output

Same model across every language, including historically underserved ones.

Native-speaker Arabic STT accuracy

Accurate translation starts with accurate recognition across accents, multilingual speech, and language switching.

Arabic names, numbers, and domain terms

Preserved in both transcript and translation, including phone numbers, emails, and IDs.

Arabic translation is built on top of the Soniox Speech-to-Text API. Turn it on by adding a translation block to your request. Translated tokens come back interleaved with transcripts on the same stream, with no extra round trip.

Live Arabic translation: written and spoken

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Arabic speech-to-text translation

Translate live Arabic into written text with the Soniox STT API. Enable real-time translation with a config change. Soniox streams the Arabic transcript and translated text as speech happens.

Use it for Arabic captions, subtitles, meeting translation, agent assist, accessibility tools, and multilingual transcription.

Realtime Translator
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Arabic speech-to-speech translation

Build full spoken Arabic translation by combining Soniox STT and Soniox TTS. Soniox recognizes Arabic, translates it in real time, and speaks the output in the target language with low latency.

Use it for live Arabic interpreters, bilingual voice agents, travel assistants, customer support, and real-time multilingual communication.

One-way or two-way Arabic translation

One-way translates all speech into a single target language. Two-way keeps a bilingual conversation flowing between Arabic and another language, so each side speaks naturally and hears the other in their own.

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One-way translation

Translate live speech to or from Arabic into a single target language. Everyone in the conversation sees the same translated stream.

Ideal for live captions, multilingual meetings, broadcasts, lectures, customer calls, and products where many speakers need to be understood in one language.

Live Conversation
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Two-way translation

Translate between Arabic and another language for live bilingual conversation. Each side speaks naturally and hears the other in their own language.

Soniox supports real-time two-way translation between any two of 60+ supported languages.

Simple, usage-based pricing

Start translating live Arabic audio streams from ~$0.18/hour.

Translation is already built into Soniox Speech-to-Text API. When turned on, it adds about ~$0.06/hour in output token costs.

About Arabic

Arabic has roughly 422,000,000 speakers across Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria, Sudan, Iraq, and Morocco, and 16 more regions.

Arabic is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

Arabic uses a root-and-pattern morphology where most words derive from three-consonant roots.

Frequently asked questions

Does Soniox translate Arabic in real time?
Yes. Soniox streams Arabic translation while speech is still happening, so users see or hear meaning immediately instead of waiting for the sentence to end.
What language pairs are supported for Arabic?
Soniox supports translation between Arabic and any of 60+ supported languages — 3,600 language pairs in total. Both Arabic as the source and Arabic as the target are supported.
How does two-way Arabic translation work?
Two-way translation lets both sides of a conversation speak in their own language and hear the other side in theirs. A Arabic speaker can talk in Arabic while the other party hears their own language in real time, and vice versa.
Does Soniox handle dialects and accents in Arabic?
Yes. Soniox handles Arabic dialects like Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, and Gulf Arabic in a single model, along with accents and language switching, so live translation stays accurate across regions and registers.
Can Soniox translate names, numbers, and domain terms in Arabic?
Yes. Soniox preserves the details that matter — names, phone numbers, emails, IDs, addresses, verification codes, and domain-specific terminology — in both the Arabic transcript and the translated output.
Which other providers support live Arabic translation?
Based on their public docs, OpenAI, Google, and Azure list Arabic as a supported source language for real-time translation. Soniox is the only one of them that also supports two-way live translation across 60+ languages.
How fast is Arabic translation?
Soniox streams translated text as Arabic is being spoken, with ultra-low latency. Translation arrives before the sentence ends, rather than after long caption delays.
What can I build with Arabic translation?
Common use cases include multilingual voice agents, live interpreters, multilingual meetings, customer support and contact centers, real-time translated captions and subtitles, and accessibility and communication tools — all with Arabic as a source or target.

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