Teaching a machine to hear a mistake
Our article on how the recitation AI was built and tested.
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Quran recitation AI and Quran apps
An AI that listens to a recitation and follows it word by word, marking mistakes as they happen. We can bring it into your Quran app or teaching platform, or build the app around it.
Our Quran recitation AI listens as someone recites and follows along word by word. It marks skipped words, wrong letters (including a missed shadda) and wrong short vowels as they happen. It runs on a speech model we fine-tuned ourselves, built on CTC: there is no text decoder, so it does not auto-correct a mistake into the right word.
On held-out tests it keeps 99.89% of words read correctly by professional reciters green, and catches 99.5% of skipped words and 98.9% of wrong vowels planted in test recordings. Checking one verse takes under a tenth of a second. A small model on the phone follows the page and catches skipped words even offline. Tajweed is not checked yet: that is the next step, added rule by rule once each rule is validated.
What we’ve built
How we’d build yours
Understand
We learn how your business works today and what the system has to do for you.
Paid prototype in 1 to 2 weeks
You see a working prototype within 1 to 2 weeks. If you go ahead, its fee is deducted from the project price.
Build in milestones
We build in milestones you test as we go. Payments are usually split 40%, 40% and 20%.
Launch
We launch on your cloud, ours, your own servers or a mix, with six months of bug fixes included.
What you get
- Recitation checking through an API for your Quran app or teaching platform (early access coming soon)
- Word-by-word following, with skipped words, wrong letters and wrong short vowels marked as they happen
- A small on-device model that follows the page and catches skipped words offline
- A Quran app built around it, on mobile and the web, in Arabic and English
- For an app we build for you: the code is yours once paid in full, or licensed if the budget is tight
- Six months of bug fixes after launch
NDA on request. English and Arabic. Based in Crystal Tower, Kuwait City, since 2025.
Common questions
Yes. Our recitation AI follows the recitation word by word and marks skipped words, wrong letters (including a missed shadda) and wrong short vowels as they happen. It does not check tajweed yet.
On held-out tests it keeps 99.89% of words read correctly by professional reciters green, and catches 99.5% of skipped words and 98.9% of wrong vowels planted in test recordings. Checking one verse takes under a tenth of a second.
Not yet. Tajweed is the next step, and we will add it rule by rule once each rule is validated.
That is what the API is for: it is built for Quran apps and teaching platforms, and early access is coming soon. Request early access and tell us about your app.
A small model on the phone follows the page and catches skipped words even without an internet connection.
Tell us what you need
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