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

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

Whisper large-v3

OpenAI

ASR

No evaluations yet

Arabic: partialMSAarenmulti

State-of-the-art open speech recognition covering 99+ languages and the default open ASR baseline for Arabic products, though Arabic is one language among many rather than a focus and dialectal Arabic remains its weak point. Note the licence inconsistency: this model card states Apache 2.0 while the openai/whisper GitHub repo and the large-v3-turbo card state MIT.

Hugging Face