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Egyptian Arabic audio to text, free

Upload a voice note, a call recording or a video and get Egyptian Arabic text back. It is free for files up to 2 minutes without an account (3 files a day); longer files need a free account. Download the result as text, Word or subtitles. Egyptian words stay Egyptian in the transcript (لسه, بتاعي, دلوقتي), written in Arabic script the way Egyptians type them.

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Upload a voice note, call recording or video in Egyptian Arabic, or record yourself. Free up to 2 minutes a file, 3 files a day, no account.

Valmiki STT

Your transcript appears here, exactly as Valmiki returns it.

Upload MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC, AMR, a WhatsApp voice note (.opus or .ogg) or an MP4 or MOV video, or record up to 2 minutes from your microphone. Switch between Arabic script, Roman script and an English translation (made by Vyas, our language model, when you open the tab), then copy the text or download TXT or DOCX, plus SRT subtitles for uploaded files. No account needed for files up to 2 minutes, 3 a day.

Egyptian Arabic audio to text converter

Drop in an audio or video file and get Egyptian Arabic text back in Arabic script. It reads MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC and AMR audio, WhatsApp voice notes (.opus and .ogg) and MP4 or MOV video, and the file is decoded on our server, so it works the same on an iPhone. You can also record from your microphone. There is no language menu: Valmiki STT, the speech recognition model behind it, works out that the speech is Egyptian Arabic, including English words in the middle of a sentence.

Free Egyptian Arabic speech to text: what you get

Files up to 2 minutes, 3 a day on each device, with no account.
With a free account, files up to 10 minutes and 10 MB each in the dashboard or the API, billed by the second.
The transcript in Egyptian Arabic, in Roman (English) letters, and translated into English.
Copy the text or download plain text (TXT) or Word (DOCX), and subtitles (SRT) for uploaded files.

Egyptian Arabic voice to text, saved as text, Word or subtitles

Copy the transcript, or download it as a TXT file or a Word document. For an uploaded file you also get an SRT subtitle file to load into YouTube Studio or a video editor. Long recordings after sign-up cost $0.00525 per minute of audio, billed by the second, the same for every language.

Real transcripts

What Valmiki STT returned for Egyptian Arabic.

Each sentence was read by Tariq, a Pāṇini TTS voice, and sent to Valmiki STT as a file: twice as the clean recording and twice as an 8 kHz phone-quality copy (squeezed down to 8 kHz and back, the way a phone line does it). The transcripts are shown exactly as they came back, errors included. Tested 25 October 2026. These are synthetic clips, not recorded calls.

Clean recordingReal output, 25 October 2026

What was said: ألو، الأوردر بتاعي لسه ما وصلش، وكانوا قايلين هيوصل النهارده. ممكن تشوفولي هو فين دلوقتي؟; Hello, my order still hasn't arrived, and they'd said it would come today. Could you check where it is now?
What Valmiki STT returned, unedited: الو. الأوردر بتاعي لسه ما وصلش، وكانوا قايلين هيوصل النهارده. ممكن تشوفوا لي هو فين دلوقتي؟

One of two clean runs. The other was the same apart from النهاردة for النهارده and a missing comma.

Phone quality (8 kHz)Real output, 25 October 2026

What was said: ألو، الأوردر بتاعي لسه ما وصلش، وكانوا قايلين هيوصل النهارده. ممكن تشوفولي هو فين دلوقتي؟; Hello, my order still hasn't arrived, and they'd said it would come today. Could you check where it is now?
What Valmiki STT returned, unedited: الو. الأوردر بتاعي لسه موصلش، وكانوا قايلين هيوصل النهاردة. ممكن تشوفولي هو فين دلوقتي؟

One of two phone-quality runs, which wrote ما وصلش as one word, موصلش. The other kept ما وصلش.

How to judge the accuracy yourself

No public benchmark includes Valmiki STT, so we do not publish a table comparing it with other services. Judge it on audio like yours instead. Play each clip above and compare what was said with what came back, word by word. Then upload a recording of your own that is close to what you will really transcribe: the same kind of phone line or microphone, the same speakers, the same mix of Egyptian Arabic and English. Count the words that changed meaning, not the spelling variants, and try the 8 kHz case if your audio comes from calls.

About Egyptian Arabic

How Egyptian Arabic speech comes out as text.

Egyptian Arabic (مصري) is the Arabic most of the region has heard on film and television, and it is very different from Fusha: عايز for I want, دلوقتي for now, لسه for still, and the negative ما ...ش wrapped around a verb (ما وصلش, it hasn't arrived). On our test sentence Valmiki STT kept every one of those Egyptian forms, in all four runs, and kept the English loanword الأوردر (the order).

The differences between runs were spelling choices that Egyptians themselves make both ways: النهارده or النهاردة, ما وصلش or موصلش, تشوفولي or تشوفوا لي. The hamza on ألو was dropped every time (الو). None of it changed the meaning.

Transcript script: Arabic script, written the way Egyptians type dialect: spellings such as النهارده and النهاردة both appear.
Language setting: None. Valmiki STT detects the spoken language, including switches mid-sentence.
Price after the free files: $0.00525 per minute of audio, billed by the second.
In local currency: About EGP 0.29 a minute (EGP 17.41 an hour of audio), at exchange rates from open.er-api.com, 25 October 2026.
Files: MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC, AMR, WhatsApp .opus and .ogg, and MP4 or MOV video in the uploader. The API takes WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG, Opus, WebM, AAC and M4A files up to 10 MB and 10 minutes.

Dialects and mixing

Cairo Arabic, Sa'idi, and Franco-Arabic.

Our test sentence is Cairo speech, where ج is a hard g and ق is a glottal stop. Upper Egypt (Sa'idi) Arabic says ق as g and uses its own words, and Alexandria has its own turns of phrase. Valmiki STT takes all of it as Arabic with no dialect setting; we tested Cairo speech only, so if your callers are from Upper Egypt, test their recordings.

Egyptians type a lot of Franco-Arabic (Arabic in Latin letters, with 3 for ع and 2 for the hamza) and mix English into speech: الأوردر, الكاش, الديليفري. Valmiki writes the Arabic in Arabic script and, on our test, wrote the English loanword in Arabic letters too. The uploader's Roman script tab gives a Latin-letter version, but check it against Franco-Arabic habits before you use it.

Use cases

What people turn into Egyptian Arabic text.

WhatsApp voice notes to Egyptian Arabic text

Long Egyptian voice notes are normal for everything from family news to a contractor's quote. Upload the .opus file and read it, or open the English tab to forward it.

YouTube videos to Egyptian Arabic text

Egyptian vlogs, cooking channels, podcasts and talk-show clips. For your own channel, download the MP4 from YouTube Studio and use the SRT file as a start on captions.

Interviews and meetings

Interviews and focus groups in Cairo and Alexandria, where people speak Masri, not Fusha. Upload parts of up to 10 minutes after a free sign-up and download a Word file.

Call recordings

Delivery and cash-on-delivery calls for e-commerce in Cairo, Giza and Alexandria. Read what each customer said about the order instead of replaying the call.

Voice typing

How to voice-type in Egyptian Arabic.

Voice typing is a different job from transcribing a file: you speak and the words appear as you go. Sonex Labs has no voice-typing keyboard or app, so for that, use the tools already on your phone or computer.

1. Android phone (Gboard)
Install Gboard, add Arabic under Languages in its settings and choose Egypt (مصر), then tap the microphone on the keyboard.
2. iPhone
Add the Arabic keyboard in Settings, then General, Keyboard, Keyboards. If your iPhone offers dictation for Arabic, a microphone key appears on that keyboard.
3. WhatsApp
To type a message by voice, tap the microphone on your keyboard, not the voice-note button in WhatsApp; the keyboard writes the words into the chat box. WhatsApp can also show a transcript under a received voice message in some languages (Settings, then Chats, then Voice message transcripts). If Egyptian Arabic is not offered there, save the voice note and upload it above.
4. Microsoft Word
Word's Dictate lists Arabic (Egypt) as a preview language, which Microsoft says may be less accurate and add less punctuation.
5. Windows
Windows 11 voice typing does not list Arabic (checked October 2026). On a PC, use Google Docs voice typing in Chrome or Edge and pick Arabic (Egypt).

For recordings longer than a minute, use the uploader above.

API

Egyptian Arabic speech to text API.

Send a recording to POST /v1/transcribe and read the Egyptian Arabic text from the reply. There is no language parameter. $0.00525 per minute of audio, billed by the second.

transcribe.py

1# pip install requests
2import requests
3
4with open("masri-voice-note.ogg", "rb") as audio:
5    r = requests.post(
6        "https://api.sonexlabs.com/v1/transcribe",
7        headers={
8            "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
9            "Content-Type": "audio/wav",   # audio/mpeg, audio/ogg (WhatsApp notes), audio/mp4 ...
10        },
11        data=audio,
12    )
13r.raise_for_status()
14result = r.json()
15print(result["text"])              # الو. الأوردر بتاعي لسه ما وصلش ...
16print(result["duration_seconds"], "seconds of audio")

About EGP 0.29 a minute (EGP 17.41 an hour of audio), at exchange rates from open.er-api.com, 25 October 2026. Live streaming, limits and error codes are on the speech to text API page, and plans are on pricing.

FAQ

Egyptian Arabic speech to text, answered.

Yes, for short files. The uploader on this page turns Egyptian Arabic audio into text with no account for files up to 2 minutes, 3 files a day. For longer files, sign up free and transcribe files of up to 10 minutes and 10 MB each in the dashboard or through the API; that costs $0.00525 a minute, billed by the second, so a 10-minute recording costs about 5.25 US cents.

There is no app to install. The uploader works in the browser on a phone too: open this page on Android or iPhone, pick a voice note, recording or video from your files, and read the Egyptian Arabic text. For typing by voice as you speak, use your phone keyboard's microphone, as described in the voice-typing steps above.

Yes. It runs in a current browser: Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari on a Windows PC or a Mac, and Safari or Chrome on an iPhone or Android phone. Files are decoded on our server, so an iPhone voice memo, a WhatsApp .opus note or a MOV video works the same as on a PC. There is nothing to install.

Long-press the voice note in WhatsApp and share or export it to your files; on Android, received voice notes are also kept as .opus files in WhatsApp's media folder. Upload the .opus or .ogg file here and the Egyptian Arabic text appears. Notes up to 2 minutes need no account.

Upload the audio, then open the English tab above the transcript. Vyas, our language model, translates the Egyptian Arabic transcript when you open the tab, and you can copy it or download it like the transcript. Check names, amounts and dates against the Egyptian Arabic text, because a word misheard in Egyptian Arabic carries into the English.

Yes, in the uploader's Roman script tab, which writes the transcript in Latin letters. It may not match Franco-Arabic as you type it (3 for ع, 7 for ح), so check it. The API returns Arabic script.

On our test sentence, very good: every run kept the Egyptian words and the meaning, and the only differences were spelling variants Egyptians use themselves. That is one sentence, not a benchmark. Test a few recordings like yours, especially from outside Cairo.

Without an account, 2 minutes per file and 3 files a day. With a free account, up to 10 minutes and 10 MB per audio file in the dashboard or the API, billed by the second. For anything longer, split the recording into parts of 10 minutes or less and send each one; the API takes the same limit.

No. On our test, Egyptian words came back as Egyptian: لسه, بتاعي, النهارده, دلوقتي. It writes what was said, in Arabic script.

Other languages, and the other direction.

Need the reverse? Turn Egyptian Arabic text into speech with Pāṇini TTS, free to try without an account.

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