Speak English. They read Arabic.
Speecho listens to the room and streams Arabic subtitles while the sentence is still being spoken, set right to left the way Arabic is read. Your Arabic-speaking audience follows on the phones already in their hands.
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For rooms where English is the working language and Arabic is the home one
Conferences, congregations and classrooms on both sides of the Gulf and the diaspora.
Briefings and training for a mixed workforce
Onboarding, safety training and policy updates are delivered in English because that is the company language. The crew that most needs to follow them is the one least likely to.
Now: The same session reads in Arabic in real time, and the transcript afterwards is a record of what was actually communicated.
Lectures and conference talks
A visiting speaker presents in English to a room where a large part of the audience thinks in Arabic. They follow the slides and lose the argument between them.
Now: Arabic subtitles on the hall screen or on each phone, and a bilingual transcript that students can revisit afterwards.
Congregations and community centres
The talk is in English; a third of the families speak Arabic at home, and the volunteer who used to interpret is not always there.
Now: Arabic appears on the screen, or on the phone of anyone who scans the QR code at the door.
Subtitles appear while the sentence is still being spoken
Interim words show up instantly and settle as the phrase completes - the English above, the Arabic below.
Good evening, and thank you all for coming.
مساء الخير، وشكرًا لكم جميعًا على الحضور.
We will start with the announcements, then the main talk.
سنبدأ بالإعلانات، ثم الحديث الرئيسي.
If you have questions, there is time for them at the end.
إذا كانت لديكم أسئلة، فهناك وقت لها في النهاية.
Three steps, and the room is reading
Set up once; after that it is one button before you start.
1. Pick where the sound comes from
The microphone in the room, or the audio of a browser tab if the meeting is online. Taking audio from the sound desk beats a laptop microphone in a large room.
Note: tab audio needs Chrome or Edge. In Safari and Firefox the microphone is the way in.
2. Share the reading link
One link, shown as a QR code on the screen or printed in the programme. It opens in a browser - no install, no account, and each reader sets their own text size.
put the subtitles on the projector in fullscreen instead, and nobody needs a phone at all.
3. Start, and stop when you are done
Billed by the second while the session runs, from a pay-as-you-go balance. Pause it over a break and nothing is charged.
the session is saved as a transcript in both languages, exportable as text or subtitles.
Pay only for what you use
Top up once. Credits never expire. No subscription. One wallet for transcription, scans and captions.
New accounts get 15 free minutes to try - credits work for scans and captions too.
Frequently asked questions
Does the Arabic read right to left?
Yes. The subtitle line, the reader page and the exported transcript all set Arabic right to left, with English words and numbers inside a sentence kept in their own direction. It reads as Arabic, not as Arabic characters in an English layout.
Which Arabic does it translate into?
Modern Standard Arabic - the register a newspaper, a subtitle track or a formal announcement uses. It is understood everywhere, which is the point when the room comes from several countries. It is not Gulf, Egyptian or Levantine dialect, so it reads as written Arabic rather than as speech.
Do people need to install anything?
No. You share a link, usually as a QR code shown on screen or printed on the programme. It opens in a browser, needs no account, and each reader sets their own text size.
What makes it struggle?
Overlapping speakers, a large hall with heavy echo, or audio picked up from a distant loudspeaker. One speaker at a time on a microphone, or the audio taken from the sound desk, is where it is most accurate.
What does an hour cost?
Billed by the second from a pay-as-you-go balance, from $0.83 per hour - the same credits as file transcription. An hour-long talk is roughly a dollar, and pausing over a break is not charged.
Can the subtitles spell names right and translate terms my way?
Yes. Open Glossary before you start and add names and terms, plus translations into Arabic written as term = translation, such as a job title or a product name the way your audience says it. The subtitles use them from the first sentence, and you can edit the list during the session.
Other language pairs
The same session in a different direction - and any of the 60 recognised languages can be translated into any supported target, whether or not it has a page here.
Everyone in the hall gets the same talk.
Live Arabic subtitles, right to left, on the screen or on every phone. No hardware, no subscription, billed by the second.
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