Community-tested models

AI models tested for Arabic

Does it actually work for Saudi, Najdi, Hijazi or Gulf Arabic? Benchmarks rarely say. The community tests these models on real speech and text — and reports back.

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All licenses Apache 2.0 AudarAI Community License v1.0 CC-BY-NC-4.0 Gemma Terms of Use Llama 4 Community License MIT Proprietary (API only)TII Falcon LLM License

Audar ASR V1 Turbo

Audar AI Labs

ASR

No evaluations yet

Arabic: fullMSAGulfEgyptianLevantinearenmulti

2.35B Arabic-first speech recognition trained on 300k+ hours, naming Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine and Maghrebi coverage plus Arabic-English code-switching. Its card claims the top place on the Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard — a leaderboard run by Elm, a Saudi company. Custom AudarAI Community Licence, not open source.

Hugging Face

Cohere Transcribe Arabic

Cohere Labs

ASR

No evaluations yet

Arabic: fullaren

Arabic-specialised speech-to-text model (Jul 2026) built on Cohere's general transcribe checkpoint. One of the most-downloaded dedicated Arabic ASR repositories on Hugging Face, and unusually for an Arabic ASR release it carries a permissive licence. The repo is gated behind a contact-sharing agreement.

Hugging Face