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Audar-ASR-V1
Open-weight Arabic-first speech recognition models
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Open-weight Arabic-first speech recognition models
10 followers
Most speech recognition models are trained on clean English and fall apart on Arabic — especially dialects and the code-switching people actually use every day. Audar is built Arabic-first: open-weight ASR models covering MSA, dialectal Arabic, and code-switching, trained on real-world audio instead of studio recordings. Inspect the weights, fine-tune on your own data, and deploy without lock-in. Built for developers and researchers building for the 400M+ people who speak Arabic.
Real useful work, finally something that doesn't choke on Moroccan darija mixed with French. One thing that would help a lot for our team: ship a small streaming WebSocket demo with partial transcripts and a confidence score, so we can see latency on noisy mobile audio before committing to a fine-tune.
@kaanhsdo Thank you — comments like this are exactly why we built Audar！
We really wanted the messy real-world cases like darija mixed with French to just work, so it's wonderful to hear it's holding up for you！
That's a great suggestion, and honestly better answered by our team than by me — let me get it in front of them.
If you drop us a line at contact@audarai.com, we'd love to dig into what you need.
Adding a built-in streaming inference mode with WebSocket support would be a nice next step so we can pipe microphone audio in directly without managing chunking on our end.
@okanozyasa20059 Thank you for the kind words and support! 🙏 You'll be happy to hear this is already live — you can experience our WebSocket streaming inference mode directly on our website. Give it a try and let us know how it holds up on your audio!
Finally an ASR that doesn't choke on my Levantine Arabic with English mixed in, and being able to peek at the weights locally is a real plus for debugging.
@hmeyrazbakmtsy Thank you so much! This is exactly what we hoped people would feel. 🙏 Levantine Arabic mixed with English is one of the real-world cases we refused to treat as an edge case, so it's great to hear it's holding up for you.
And yes — open weights are a core part of why we built this; being able to inspect and debug locally shouldn't be a luxury. Would love to hear how it performs as you dig in!