Speechmatics

Speechmatics is a British speech-recognition company whose Arabic offering is one "Global Arabic" model covering Modern Standard Arabic and, in its own words, Arabic spoken in the Gulf, Egypt and the Levant, without asking you to pick a locale. More useful for Gulf offices is the bilingual Arabic-English mode, designed for recordings where speakers switch language mid-sentence, which is how most Khaleeji business meetings actually sound. The company's published Arabic error rate is 4.5%, measured on its own test set, with a 6.3% figure for mixed Arabic-English speech. Those are vendor numbers on clean audio and will not survive a noisy majlis, but they are the lowest any global vendor claims. Speaker diarization, word timestamps, batch and real-time are all included. Pricing as of October 2026 starts around twelve cents per audio hour for the newest model, with on-premises deployment available.