Arabic AI assistant: one that understands how you speak

Plenty of AI tools say they support Arabic. In practice that often means formal written Arabic, typed carefully. Everyday life in the Gulf does not sound like that. It sounds like a Kuwaiti dialect, an English word in the middle of an Arabic sentence, and a name the tool has never seen before.

An Arabic AI assistant is only useful if it copes with the way people really speak.

What Arabic speakers actually need

Dialects, not only Modern Standard Arabic. "باچر" and "بكرة" both mean tomorrow. A Gulf speaker, an Egyptian speaker and a Levantine speaker will each say the same plan differently, and all three should work.

Mixed Arabic and English. "ذكرني بالـmeeting الساعة 10" is a normal sentence in an office in Kuwait or Dubai. The assistant should not stumble on it.

Names spelled the way you say them. Names of people, places and shops are where generic tools go wrong most often.

Dates and weekdays that fit the region. The working week, the weekend and the way people refer to days are not the same everywhere.

A clear right-to-left interface. Not an English screen with Arabic text squeezed into it.

How UTTER IN handles Arabic

UTTER IN was built in Kuwait, with Arabic as a first language rather than an add-on.

• You can speak in Gulf, Egyptian or Levantine Arabic, in Modern Standard Arabic, or in English, and switch between them in one sentence.
• Each thing you say becomes a card: a reminder, a calendar event, a note or a saved place. The card shows the details it understood, in Arabic.
• Dates are written in Arabic, with weekday and month names, and the app is fully right to left on iPhone and Android.
• Your words are kept as you said them. A plan's title is never translated.

As always, nothing is saved until you approve it, so if a name was heard wrongly you correct it before it reaches your calendar.

Everyday examples

• "ذكرني أتصل على أبوي باچر العصر" becomes a reminder for tomorrow afternoon.
• "موعد الأسنان يوم الأحد الساعة 4، وبعدين أمر الجمعية" becomes two plans.
• "Save this restaurant for the weekend" with a link becomes a saved place.

Who it is for

Anyone who thinks in Arabic, or in a mix of Arabic and English, and is tired of rephrasing everything to suit a tool built for someone else. That includes parents juggling school and family plans, people running a small business from their phone, and anyone whose day is full of things said in passing.

The Arabic site is at utterin.com/ar, and you can start on the free plan in either language.