{"id":6911,"date":"2026-07-10T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/convozen.ai\/blog\/?post_type=newsroom&#038;p=6911"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:31:38","slug":"building-speech-ai-for-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"newsroom","link":"https:\/\/convozen.ai\/newsroom\/press-coverage\/building-speech-ai-for-middle-east","title":{"rendered":"From India to MENA: Building Speech AI for Real Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every language comes with its own complexities. After years of building speech AI for India&#8217;s multilingual landscape, we took on a new challenge: creating speech models that understand the way conversations unfold across the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That journey led to <strong>Alif<\/strong> and <strong>Rawi<\/strong>, our native Arabic speech models, recently featured by <strong>Express Computer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Designed for enterprise conversations across the MENA region, Alif and Rawi are built to handle what most speech models struggle with: natural code-switching between Arabic and English, multiple regional dialects, and the nuances of everyday speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The feature explores how our experience building multilingual speech AI in India laid the foundation for tackling the complexities of Arabic. It also highlights Alif&#8217;s benchmark-leading performance on conversational Arabic-English speech recognition and Rawi&#8217;s ability to generate natural, expressive Arabic voices for enterprise applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For us, this launch is more than the introduction of two new models. 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