Arabic

Speak Arabic.
It types Arabic.

Tap the bubble floating over whatever app you're in, say your sentence in Arabic, and Arabic appears in the field that already had your cursor — right to left, in the app you were already using, with no Arabic keyboard to install.

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سأصل خلال عشر دقائق.

Spoken in Arabic, inserted in Arabic, in a right-to-left field.

The important part

It transcribes. It does not translate.

Speakline writes down what you said, in the language you said it. Speak Arabic and Arabic is what lands in the field. There is no setting that turns your Arabic into English on the way there, and none that turns your English into Arabic.

One Arabic setting, not one per country. If you need a specific regional dialect selected explicitly, Speakline does not offer that choice.

Auto mode, honestly

Auto does not cover Arabic.

The Auto mode that follows a speaker across a mid-sentence language switch covers ten languages — English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian and Dutch. Arabic is not one of them. The list comes from the transcription engine rather than from us. For Arabic, set the language to Arabic.

Text styles

Arabic always arrives exactly as dictated.

The four text styles — Clean, Formal, Casual and Excited — change the mark a sentence ends on, and they apply to languages written in the Latin alphabet. Arabic is deliberately left out, so whatever style is selected, your Arabic comes back Clean: your words and your punctuation, untouched.

Questions

Asked about Arabic, specifically.

Do I need an Arabic keyboard installed?

No. Speakline isn't a keyboard and doesn't appear in the keyboard picker. It types into the field through Android's accessibility service, so whatever keyboard you already have stays where it is.

Which Arabic dialect does it expect?

There is one Arabic setting rather than a list of regional variants, so there is no dialect to choose. If selecting a specific regional dialect matters to you, Speakline does not offer that control.

Does Auto mode handle Arabic mixed with English?

No. Auto covers ten languages — English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian and Dutch — and Arabic is not among them. For Arabic, set the language to Arabic.

Does Arabic dictation work offline?

No. Speakline transcribes in the cloud and needs a connection every time you speak, in Arabic as in every other language. It doesn't fall back to your phone's built-in recogniser.

Also

Twenty-nine other languages.

Arabic is one of thirty. The nearest neighbours: Urdu, Hindi and Spanish. The main page has the full list and a 40-second tour.

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