About Dialect Data
Our mission is to preserve and amplify the full diversity of Arabic speech so AI can serve every community with cultural accuracy.
Why Dialects Matter
Arabic isn’t a single language—it’s a collection of dialects that change by region, city, and even neighborhood. In Lebanon alone, the accent in Beirut sounds different from Tripoli, the Bekaa Valley, or the South. The same is true across Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and beyond. These differences matter for AI, voice recognition, and cultural understanding. Our work captures this locality so voice assistants, speech systems, and language models can perform reliably for real communities.
Our Mission
Many AI models are trained on blended Arabic dialect data that misses local speech patterns. We solve this through three services: dialect classification, licensed and rights-cleared data collection, and academic licensing with clear agreements.
How We Work
- Dialect identification: our linguists classify dialects in client-supplied audio/text and return structured labels.
- Data collection: our local teams record conversations in specific dialects and supply metadata about speakers and environments.
- Academic licensing: we partner with regional universities to license Arabic text corpora, including ~4 million MSA words from Egypt, and can source additional corpora.
Our Vision
Current focus areas: Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. Near-term expansion areas: North Africa and the Gulf. Long-term, we are building an operating model that can scale to additional regions, including Africa and India.
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Interested in the technical details? Visit our Dataset page for in-depth specifications and access information.
Our Team
We are a distributed team of native speakers, linguists, technologists, and field operators across the Levant, Iraq, and Yemen, with active partnerships supporting North Africa. Interested in joining us? Check out our Careers page.