Arabic transcripts you can trust.
Point it at a live feed, a link or a file and read what is being said as it is said, in Arabic or in the original. Built specifically around the problem of machine transcription inventing plausible Arabic.
Lines as they are said — and the one it refuses to guess at. Open the marked gap.
Automatic transcription does something particular and dangerous in Arabic: when it is unsure, it produces fluent, grammatical, entirely invented text. Not garbled output you would notice — a clean sentence that reads perfectly and was never said. A monitor skimming a transcript for a quote has no way to tell the difference, which is precisely why so many newsrooms gave up on the tools and went back to a person with headphones.
So this studio routes around the failure rather than hoping it will not happen. Where the risk of invention is high, the audio is transcribed first in the language it can hold most reliably, and the Arabic is produced from that transcript as a translation — a step that cannot invent content, because it only has the transcript to work from. It is slower by a fraction of a second and considerably more honest.
10 things it does. Open any one for how it works.
Watch a feed and read the words appearing a few seconds behind the speaker. The monitoring desk stops needing somebody who understands the language to sit through the whole broadcast.
Paste a video link, upload a recording or point it at a live feed. All three arrive in the same place and behave the same way.
Nothing appears in the Arabic that was not said in the audio — no paraphrase that drifts, and no sentence nobody spoke.
It is a deliberate trade. You give up a fraction of a second and a little of the original phrasing, and you get a transcript where a sentence appearing on screen corresponds to a sentence somebody actually spoke. For a newsroom pulling quotes, that is the only property that matters.
Every line carries its timecode. Reading the transcript and clicking a sentence takes the video to the second it was said — which is how you find a quote in an hour of testimony.
Sessions are kept with their full text, so a phrase you half-remember from a hearing three weeks ago is a search rather than an afternoon.
Subtitles ready to burn in, plain text for the desk, or a timed file for an edit — whichever the next person needs.
A transcript of a live feed is the fastest way to find the line worth cutting. Mark it in the text and take the clip from the same place.
Run it fast enough to keep up with live, or slower and more carefully for material that will be quoted. Different jobs want different settings.
Show the original and the Arabic together. A monitor who speaks the source language can check the translation as it appears rather than trusting it.
Transcription runs on your own installation. A recording of a closed briefing does not leave the premises to be turned into text.
A live feed you already have connected, a public video link, or a file from a colleague's phone.
Lines appear a few seconds behind the speaker, in the original or in Arabic, or both side by side.
Scan the text instead of scrubbing the video. Click the sentence you want and the player goes there.
Export subtitles, copy the quote for the desk, or cut the clip from that exact moment.
A monitoring desk that needs to know what is being said on channels in three languages currently needs somebody fluent sitting through each one. With transcripts running alongside the feeds, one person reads four channels and only stops to listen when a line matters.
Somebody said something significant about forty minutes in. Rather than scrubbing back and forth, you read down the transcript, find the exchange, click it, and cut from there. What was twenty minutes of hunting becomes two.
You remember roughly what a minister said and roughly when. Because past sessions keep their full text, that is a search box rather than a request to the library and a wait until tomorrow.
Transcribe the original and translate, or transcribe directly, depending on whether the material will be quoted or merely monitored.
Keep up with a live feed, or run more carefully over a recording that matters. Different settings for different jobs.
Fix a name or a term before exporting. Corrections stay with the session rather than being lost on the next run.
Sessions and their text are kept until you remove them. Retention is a policy you set, not a default you discover.
The whole design routes around the one failure that matters: a clean, grammatical sentence nobody said. Where the risk is high, Arabic is produced from a transcript rather than from audio.
Every line is anchored to a timecode you can click and hear. A transcript you can check against the audio in one click is a transcript that cannot quietly mislead.
Transcription runs on your own installation. Sensitive material does not leave the building to be turned into text.
What you do with the text is a separate decision made by a person. Nothing here goes anywhere on its own.
Most transcription tools treat invented Arabic as an accuracy problem to be improved away over time. We treat it as something that must not happen at all, because a transcript that is ninety-five per cent right and gives no indication which five per cent is invented is worse for a newsroom than no transcript at all. A sentence on screen corresponds to a sentence somebody spoke.
A wide range as source material, with Arabic as the destination for newsroom use. The practical question is usually the reverse of what people expect: getting reliable Arabic out is the hard part, and that is what the design addresses.
A few seconds, which is fast enough to monitor a broadcast in real time. Where you choose the more careful option for Arabic you add a fraction of a second, which nobody notices while reading.
Yes, and you should for anything that will be quoted — names and technical terms are where machine transcription is weakest in any language. Corrections stay with the session.
Yes. Upload it like any other file. Audio quality affects the result the way it affects any transcription, but a phone recording of a press conference is entirely usable.
The useful demonstration is the one that runs on your footage and your wire feeds. Tell us how your desk works and we will show you the parts that matter — and say so where we do not help.