Voice & speech
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe
Voice & speech · NVIDIA
NVIDIA open-weight batch speech model transcribing 40 languages, including Arabic (rated "Supported"; 6.35% word error on the FLEURS Arabic test). Handles finished recordings up to one hour, speech translation to and from English, and speaker labels. OpenMDW licence. Not live streaming.
Price on request- Documented repository availability
- 27 Oct 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 7 Nov 2026
Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Code · GitHub (opens in a new tab on github.com)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Jais Speech
Voice & speech · Inception42
Arabic speech recognition released alongside Jais 3.
Open weights- Released
- 15 Oct 2026
- Official source
- Official source — af.net (opens in a new tab on af.net)
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Named by 2 respected sources:mbzuai.ac.ae (opens in a new tab on mbzuai.ac.ae)thenationalnews.com (opens in a new tab on thenationalnews.com)
Falcon-ASR
Voice & speech · TII · UAE
1.6B speech-recognition model transcribing Standard and Emirati Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, with word-level timestamps. Downloadable weights and licence terms are not confirmed.
Price on requestAccess: Permission- Released
- 6 Oct 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 25 Oct 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
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- Not verified
- Via Souq
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Named by 1 respected source:zawya.com (opens in a new tab on zawya.com)
Morocco × Mistral Darija tools
Voice & speech · Morocco · Mistral AI
Darija speech recognition (Voxtral-based, handles Arabic–French–English mixing) and an Arabic dialect identifier.
Open sourceSite unavailable- Released
- 29 Sep 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Sarj voice
Voice & speech · Saudi Arabia
AI sales rep that phones customers in Saudi Arabic about abandoned carts and offers.
Price on requestZid- Zid partnership announced
- 21 Sep 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not recorded yet
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- Not verified
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HUMAIN Voice
Voice & speech · HUMAIN · KSA
Conversational voice AI tuned for Saudi, Maghrebi, Egyptian and Levantine dialects.
AnnouncedLEAP 2026- In the news
- 31 Aug 2026
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- Not documented yet
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Named by 1 respected source:zawya.com (opens in a new tab on zawya.com)
BelMasry
Voice & speech · AIC · Egypt
Free Egyptian and MSA transcription, translation to 50 languages and Arabic text-to-speech.
FreeAI Everything Cairo 2026Access: Permission- In the news
- 19 Aug 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Hamsa
Voice & speech · MENA
Arabic voice AI platform, deployed in Saudi Arabia with OmniOps on sovereign infrastructure.
Price on request- In the news
- 17 Jul 2026
- Official source
- Official source — unite.ai (opens in a new tab on unite.ai)
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
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Named by 3 respected sources:zawya.com (opens in a new tab on zawya.com)dl.acm.org (opens in a new tab on dl.acm.org)dl.acm.org (opens in a new tab on dl.acm.org)
Cohere Transcribe Arabic
Voice & speech · Cohere
2B speech-to-text for MSA, Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine and Maghrebi, with code-switching.
Open · Apache 2.0- Released
- 7 Jul 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Discovery only
Named by 1 respected source:arxiv.org (opens in a new tab on arxiv.org)arxiv.org (opens in a new tab on arxiv.org)arxiv.org (opens in a new tab on arxiv.org)
Nabrah
Voice & speech · Saudi Arabia
Saudi voice AI platform offering Arabic speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice agents, with API access.
Price on request- Platform opened publicly
- 24 May 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 1 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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MOSS-TTS-Nano
Voice & speech · OpenMOSS / MOSI.AI
OpenMOSS / MOSI.AI 0.1B speech model with Arabic (ar), CPU streaming and voice cloning. Public downloadable weights; no hosted Hugging Face Inference Provider. Apache-2.0 in GitHub and model metadata, but the model card retains a redistribution warning. Official language lists differ; Arabic is confirmed. Arabic audio quality not tested by Souq.
Free- Released
- 10 Apr 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 13 Nov 2026
Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Code · GitHub (opens in a new tab on github.com)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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SILMA TTS
Voice & speech · SILMA AI · KSA
150M Arabic–English text-to-speech with voice cloning; commercial voices at app.silma.ai.
Open + commercial- Released
- 15 Mar 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Code · GitHub (opens in a new tab on github.com)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Speechmatics Arabic–English
Voice & speech · United Kingdom
Bilingual speech-to-text for conversations that switch between Arabic and English, including within a sentence.
Price on request- Announced
- 6 Mar 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 1 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Kyurius Voice
Voice & speech · UAE
Voice automation built on its own dialect-based Arabic speech AI.
Price on requestExpand North Star 2025- Released
- 16 Feb 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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MOSS-TTSD
Voice & speech · OpenMOSS
OpenMOSS long-form dialogue speech model with Arabic (ar), voice cloning and 1–5 speakers. Public downloadable MOSS-TTSD-v1.0 weights; no hosted Hugging Face Inference Provider. Apache-2.0 in GitHub and model metadata. Official language counts differ; Arabic is confirmed. Arabic audio quality not tested by Souq.
Free- Announced
- 10 Feb 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 13 Nov 2026
Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Code · GitHub (opens in a new tab on github.com)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
MOSS-TTS
Voice & speech · OpenMOSS
OpenMOSS multilingual text-to-speech and voice-cloning model family with Arabic (ar) support. MOSS-TTS 1.0 supports 20 languages; v1.5 expands to 31. Released under Apache-2.0. Arabic audio quality has not been independently tested by Souq.
Free- Announced
- 10 Feb 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 12 Nov 2026
Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Code · GitHub (opens in a new tab on github.com)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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MOSS-TTS-Realtime
Voice & speech · OpenMOSS
OpenMOSS streaming speech model for context-aware, multi-turn voice agents, with Arabic (ar) and voice cloning. Public downloadable weights; no hosted Hugging Face Inference Provider. Apache-2.0 in GitHub and model metadata. Official language counts differ; Arabic is confirmed. Arabic audio quality not tested by Souq.
Free- Announced
- 10 Feb 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 13 Nov 2026
Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Code · GitHub (opens in a new tab on github.com)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Orpheus Arabic Saudi
Voice & speech · Unverified
Canopy Labs’ Saudi Arabic text-to-speech model is available through the GroqCloud API.
Price on request- Groq platform migration
- 30 Jan 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 1 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Deepgram Nova-3 Arabic
Voice & speech · Unverified
Arabic speech-to-text model supporting Modern Standard Arabic and Gulf, Levantine, Egyptian, Maghrebi and Iraqi varieties, available through a cloud API or self-hosted deployment.
Price on request- Announced
- 28 Jan 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 1 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Discovery only
Hakim AI
Voice & speech · UAE
An Arabic-first voice platform offers text-to-speech, speech recognition and voice cloning.
Price on request- Released
- 15 Nov 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 26 Oct 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Arabic F5-TTS v2
Voice & speech · Community
F5-based Arabic speech synthesis.
Open weights- Released
- 13 Nov 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Discovery only
KaniTTS Arabic
Voice & speech · nineninesix
400M Arabic-specialised text-to-speech model.
Open weights- Documented repository availability
- 24 Oct 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Code · GitHub (opens in a new tab on github.com)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Maqsam
Voice & speech · Jordan · KSA
Contact-centre software with an Arabic-native AI agent and dialect call transcription.
Published plans- Released
- 30 Jul 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Named by 3 respected sources:arabnews.com (opens in a new tab on arabnews.com)zawya.com (opens in a new tab on zawya.com)arxiv.org (opens in a new tab on arxiv.org)
Sawt
Voice & speech · Saudi Arabia
24/7 Arabic voice agents for customer support, bookings and sales.
Price on request- Released
- 28 Jul 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Named by 1 respected source:wamda.com (opens in a new tab on wamda.com)wamda.com (opens in a new tab on wamda.com)wamda.com (opens in a new tab on wamda.com)
ArTST v2
Voice & speech · MBZUAI
Unified Arabic text-and-speech transformer covering 17 dialects.
Open weights- Research paper published
- 7 Nov 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not recorded yet
Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Code · GitHub (opens in a new tab on github.com)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
ArDistilWhisper
Voice & speech · UBC-NLP
Distilled Arabic speech-recognition models provide checkpoints for audio transcription.
Free- Documented repository availability
- 20 Jun 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 26 Oct 2026
Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Discovery only
CAMB.AI
Voice & speech · CAMB.AI
AI speech generation and localization tools support Arabic narration and multilingual voice production.
Price on request- In the news
- 7 Feb 2024
- Official source
- Official source — camb.ai (opens in a new tab on camb.ai)
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 26 Oct 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
Named by 2 respected sources:arabnews.com (opens in a new tab on arabnews.com)arabnews.com (opens in a new tab on arabnews.com)arabnews.com (opens in a new tab on arabnews.com)
taleik.ai
Voice & speech · Palestine
Agentic voice AI for customer support in MENA contact centres.
Price on requestExpand North Star 2025- Founded
- 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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ElevenLabs
Voice & speech · Global · supports Arabic
Voice AI with Arabic text-to-speech and voice agents; spoke at Web Summit Qatar 2026.
FreemiumWeb Summit 2026- Released
- 23 Jan 2023
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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Named by 5 respected sources:techcrunch.com (opens in a new tab on techcrunch.com)theverge.com (opens in a new tab on theverge.com)techcrunch.com (opens in a new tab on techcrunch.com)
Intella
Voice & speech · Egypt · KSA
Arabic speech intelligence across 25+ dialects, plus the Ziila digital human.
Enterprise contract- In the news
- 30 Mar 2022
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Named by 5 respected sources:zawya.com (opens in a new tab on zawya.com)zawya.com (opens in a new tab on zawya.com)wamda.com (opens in a new tab on wamda.com)
ToumAI
Voice & speech · Morocco
Multilingual voice AI (including Darija) for customer service and call monitoring.
EnterpriseGITEX Africa 2026- Founded
- 2020
- Official source
- Official source — gsma.com (opens in a new tab on gsma.com)
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Named by 3 respected sources:aclanthology.org (opens in a new tab on aclanthology.org)magnitt.com (opens in a new tab on magnitt.com)arxiv.org (opens in a new tab on arxiv.org)
Mind Rockets
Voice & speech · Jordan
Avatars that translate Arabic text and speech into sign language.
Price on requestGITEX Africa 2026- In the news
- 5 Mar 2017
- Official source
- Official source — mena.entrepreneur.com (opens in a new tab on mena.entrepreneur.com)
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Discovery only
Named by 3 respected sources:thenationalnews.com (opens in a new tab on thenationalnews.com)magnitt.com (opens in a new tab on magnitt.com)wamda.com (opens in a new tab on wamda.com)
Lahgtna TTS
Voice & speech · Community
Multi-dialect text-to-speech (Egyptian, Saudi, Moroccan, Iraqi) with tashkeel support.
Open weights- Release / announcement
- Not documented yet
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
OuteTTS 1.0
Voice & speech · OuteAI
A one-billion parameter speech synthesis model built on the Llama architecture to generate natural-sounding voice.
Free- Release / announcement
- Not documented yet
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 12 Nov 2026
Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Code · GitHub (opens in a new tab on github.com)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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CNTXT AI
Voice & speech · UAE
UAE data and AI company providing enterprise and government AI solutions, including Arabic voice agents and on-premise deployment.
Enterprise- Release / announcement
- Not documented yet
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 1 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Speech Recognition
Voice & speech · Expand North Star exhibitors
Advanced systems that identify and translate spoken language into text for hands-free device interaction.
Price on request- Release / announcement
- Not documented yet
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 5 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Fish Speech S2 Pro
Voice & speech · Fish Audio
A state-of-the-art multilingual foundation model for advanced speech generation and processing.
Price on request- Release / announcement
- Not documented yet
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 12 Nov 2026
Official blog · fish.audio (opens in a new tab on fish.audio)Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Code · GitHub (opens in a new tab on github.com)- Verified pricing
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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Real time translation
Voice & speech · Gitex Exhibitor
Instantaneous linguistic processing tools that convert speech or text across different languages during live interactions.
Price on request- Release / announcement
- Not documented yet
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 5 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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