Arabic voice assistant for the Gulf: speak in your own dialect

Speaking is the fastest way to get a thought out of your head, and for most people in the Gulf that thought arrives in dialect. An Arabic voice assistant that only understands formal Arabic forces you to translate yourself first, which defeats the point of speaking.

Why voice matters more in Arabic

Typing Arabic on a phone is slower than typing English for many people, especially with a mixed keyboard, autocorrect fighting every second word, and English terms dropped in between. Voice skips all of that. You say it the way you think it.

What the assistant has to hear correctly

The dialect. "أبي", "عايز" and "بدي" all mean "I want". A Gulf, an Egyptian and a Levantine speaker should all be understood without changing how they talk.

Code-switching. "عندي presentation يوم الخميس" mixes two languages in one breath. That is normal speech, and the assistant should treat it as normal.

Time words. "العصر", "بعد المغرب", "آخر الأسبوع". These need to become an actual time and day you can check.

Several things at once. People rarely say one task at a time. One voice note can hold a reminder, an appointment and a place to visit.

How it works in UTTER IN

1. Tap the microphone and speak, in Arabic, English or both.
2. UTTER IN splits what you said into separate cards and shows each one in Arabic: what it is, when, with whom and where.
3. You approve, edit or discard each card. Approved plans can go straight to your calendar.

Arabic text in the app has no diacritics, dates use Arabic month names with regular digits, and the whole app reads right to left.

A few things to try

• "ذكرني أدفع فاتورة الكهرباء باچر"
• "عزيمة عند خالتي يوم الجمعة بعد المغرب، وذكرني أشتري حلويات قبلها"
• "Meeting مع فريق المبيعات الأحد الساعة 9"

The second one becomes an event and a reminder, timed before it.

Private by design

Your recording is used to understand what you said, and nothing becomes a plan until you approve it. For the details, read what happens to your voice after you approve.

Try it on the Arabic site at utterin.com/ar, or download the app and say tomorrow's list in your own words.