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Arabic transcription
Upload an Arabic recording to get a transcript with speaker labels and timestamps.
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You can read it in Arabic, translate it into your working language, or export video subtitles.
Transcription tools built mainly around English often struggle with Arabic in ways any reader will notice right away.
Someone might start in Modern Standard Arabic and switch to a regional dialect once the conversation gets going. Because heavy dialect on a bad recording won't transcribe as cleanly as clear, formal speech, it pays to test a sample of your own audio first.
People talking about business, medicine, or tech regularly drop English or French terms into the middle of an Arabic sentence. Those words get written down just as they were spoken.
Your transcript, exported files, and subtitles all flow right to left, without scrambling numbers or Latin text inserted in the line.
Many people who need an Arabic transcript actually work in another language. It might be for a client call, an interview, a research recording, or a video that needs subtitles.
Start by getting the Arabic text, then translate it into a supported language. Hold on to both versions so an Arabic speaker can review the parts that matter.
Download an SRT file with translated subtitles for your Arabic video, ready to drop into your video player or editing software.
If you correct the spelling of Arabic names and places in the original transcript, those fixes carry over into your translation and subtitles.
Select an Arabic audio or video file from your device, or record directly in the app.
Pick Arabic or leave it on auto-detect. KolWrite will generate a transcript complete with speaker labels and timestamps.
Click any line to hear the audio and edit names or specific terms right in the text.
Run a translation if you need the text in another language, then download your file as a Word doc, PDF, TXT, or SRT.
You can also run everything KolWrite does with a recording through our API. Send the address of an audio or video file from your own code or an AI coding agent, and you'll get back the transcript with word timings, speaker labels, and an SRT file if you request one.
The JSON output gives you the start and end time for every segment, plus individual word timings on models that support alignment. Turn on speaker separation to include a speaker label on each segment.
Pass output_format as srt if you want subtitles directly from the API. If you are using the Oracle models, you can also set translate_to to get the text back in another language.
The API console publishes plain-text instructions for an agent to read before writing code. This includes agent-instructions.md, along with llms.txt, which links to the full reference.
Example request. The key comes from an environment variable, and the console has the full reference.
curl -X POST https://app.kolwrite.com/transcribe \
-H "x-api-key: $KOLWRITE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"audio_url": "https://example.com/video.mp4", "model": "oracle", "language": "auto", "output_format": "srt"}'
# Returns {"jobId": "..."}. Poll GET https://app.kolwrite.com/transcribe/{jobId}
# until status is COMPLETED. The result is the file or the JSON you asked for.Upload your audio or video to KolWrite, select Arabic (or automatic language detection), and start the transcription. You'll get an editable Arabic transcript with timestamps and speaker labels that you can export when you're done.
The tool supports Arabic and treats dialect speech as normal input. Still, heavy dialect on a poor recording will not come out the same as clear speech close to the standard language. Test it with a few minutes of your own recording first.
Yes. Once you transcribe the Arabic audio, you can translate the text into any other supported language. Having the original Arabic right next to the translation is helpful if you ever need someone to verify a tricky passage.
Yes. From the same transcript, you can export an SRT subtitle file in either the original Arabic or a translated language.
That depends on your audio quality. One person speaking clearly close to the mic will turn out very differently from a noisy group call. Because of that, KolWrite doesn't claim a single accuracy figure for Arabic. Try it on your own recordings to see how it handles them.
Upload a few minutes of an actual recording you need transcribed and see how the text turns out.