Arabic to Chinese speech translation API
Stream Arabic (العربية) speech and get Chinese (中文) back in real time. One WebSocket, ISO codes ar to zh, and ultra-low latency for voice agents and live apps.
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Production-ready Arabic to Chinese translation API
Real Arabic speech includes accents, regional dialects, code switching, and domain-specific vocabulary. Soniox recognizes it in a single model and streams Chinese while the speaker is still talking.
Arabic (Afro-Asiatic > Semitic > Central Semitic) and Chinese (Sino-Tibetan > Sinitic) come from different language families, so word order and morphology differ. Soniox reorders meaning in-stream instead of word by word.
Arabic is written in Arabic and Chinese in CJK, so Soniox emits correctly scripted Chinese text. Right-to-left output is handled directly in the token stream.
A breakthrough in real-time Arabic to Chinese translation
Translate before the sentence ends
Chinese meaning lands as Arabic is spoken, not after the caption catches up.
Directional ar to zh streaming
Set the source and target codes once. Both arrive in a single labeled token stream.
High quality Chinese output
Same model across every language, including historically underserved ones.
Native-speaker Arabic STT accuracy
Accurate Chinese translation starts with accurate Arabic recognition across accents and language switching.
Names, numbers, and domain terms
Preserved across the pair, including phone numbers, emails, and IDs.
{
"model": "stt-rt-v5",
"translation": {
"type": "one_way",
"source_language": "ar",
"target_language": "zh"
}
}Arabic and Chinese through a single stream
Arabic to Chinese translation is built on top of Soniox Speech-to-Text API. Every spoken word is transcribed, and Chinese translation streams mid-sentence in the same labeled token stream.
Turn it on by adding a translation block with source_language: "ar" and target_language: "zh". It runs on the same WebSocket and the same model, with no extra round trip.
Live Arabic to Chinese: written and spoken
Arabic to Chinese speech-to-text
Translate live Arabic into written Chinese with the Soniox STT API. Soniox streams the Arabic transcript and the Chinese translation as speech happens.
Use it for Chinese captions, subtitles, meeting translation, agent assist, and multilingual transcription.
Arabic to Chinese speech-to-speech
Build full spoken Arabic to Chinese translation by combining Soniox STT and Soniox TTS. Soniox recognizes Arabic, translates it, and speaks Chinese with low latency.
Use it for live interpreters, bilingual voice agents, travel assistants, and customer support.
Live Arabic to Chinese translation in action
Stream Arabic to Chinese one-way to push all speech into Chinese, or two-way to keep a bilingual conversation flowing between the two languages.
One-way translation
Translate live Arabic into Chinese. Everyone in the conversation sees the same translated stream.
Ideal for live captions, multilingual meetings, broadcasts, lectures, and customer calls.
Two-way translation
Translate between Arabic and Chinese 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.
Accurate on both ends of the pair
Soniox transcribes Arabic at 1.25% word error rate and Chinese at 1.25% word error rate. Accurate recognition on both sides is what makes the translation reliable.
Speech-to-Text
Native-speaker accuracy across 60+ languages, with support for multilingual speech, alphanumerics, speaker diarization, context.
Translation
Real-time streaming translation across 3,600 language pairs, built for high quality and low delay across all supported languages.
Text-to-speech
High-fidelity speech generation in 60+ languages, built for names, alphanumerics, language switching, and ultra-low-latency streaming.
Together, they create a complete real-time low-latency speech AI platform.
About Arabic and Chinese
Arabic has roughly 422,000,000 speakers across Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria, and Sudan. Chinese has roughly 1,100,000,000 speakers across China, Taiwan, and Singapore.
Arabic is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
Chinese characters are one of the oldest continuously used writing systems, with over 3,000 years of history.
Soniox makes Arabic to Chinese usable in real-time translation across every supported pair.
Translate Arabic to any language
From Arabic to Chinese, or Arabic to any of 60+ supported languages. All real-time.
Frequently asked questions
How do I translate Arabic to Chinese with the API?
Is Arabic to Chinese translation real-time?
What about translating Chinese to Arabic?
Does Soniox handle Arabic to CJK output?
Does Soniox handle Arabic dialects and accents?
Which other providers support Arabic to Chinese?
How fast is Arabic to Chinese translation?
Simple, usage-based pricing
Translate live audio from Arabic to Chinese 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.
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