Arabic speech-to-text: the test queue
Six transcription tools. No word-error rate from us.
Arabic transcription is what students, reporters, and support teams ask for. Our measurement is word error rate on MSA, dialect, and noise samples, and those samples are not recorded yet. The list is six tools the source describes as speech-to-text or that mention Arabic among languages. Azure also appears on the text-to-speech queue because it is one product and we have not separated the modes with a test. Any error rate on a source page stays theirs.
| # | Tools | Test queue for this topic | AI Arabi score |
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| 1 | OpenAI Whisper | Queued for the transcription items | Not yet tested |
| 2 | Speechmatics | Queued for the transcription items | Not yet tested |
| 3 | Deepgram | Queued for the transcription items | Not yet tested |
| 4 | Azure AI Speech | Queued for the transcription items | Not yet tested |
| 5 | Google Cloud Speech-to-Text | Queued for the transcription items | Not yet tested |
| 6 | AssemblyAI | Queued for the transcription items | Not yet tested |
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OpenAI Whisper
Not yet testedQueued for the transcription items
Why it is queued: an open baseline for dialect speech-to-text tests. The tokenizer listing "ar" is not our test result.
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Speechmatics
Not yet tested UnverifiedQueued for the transcription items
Listed from the source table on 2026-10-14. No Arabic score yet.
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Deepgram
Not yet testedQueued for the transcription items
Listed from the source table on 2026-10-14. No Arabic score yet.
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Azure AI Speech
Not yet tested UnverifiedQueued for the transcription items
Listed from the source table on 2026-10-14. No Arabic score yet.
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Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
Not yet testedQueued for the transcription items
Listed from the source table on 2026-10-14. No Arabic score yet.
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AssemblyAI
Not yet tested UnverifiedQueued for the transcription items
Listed from the source table on 2026-10-14. No Arabic score yet.
Source checked: 2026-10-14