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Iqra
An iOS app that listens as you recite the Qur'an and helps you memorize with the patience of a teacher and the precision of an engine. Built on Hafiz ASR.
hafiz-ai.com/iqra
Recitation intelligence, by Muslims, for the Ummah
Intelligence for the recitation of the Qur'an.
Hafiz AI is a research and engineering studio building the recitation intelligence layer for the Qur'an. We train Arabic speech models on the voices of master reciters, then ship them as products, APIs, and tools for developers, teachers, and learners.
Live recognition
Hafiz ASR · v0.3
بِسْمِ
ٱللَّهِ
ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ
ٱلرَّحِيمِ
ٱلْحَمْدُ
لِلَّهِ
رَبِّ
ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ
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The engine
A recitation model, built right.
The Hafiz AI engine is a fine tuned Arabic speech model that understands the Qur'an the way it is meant to be heard, with adab, accuracy, and care. Every layer of the stack is built with the same intent.
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Curated corpus
Trained on thousands of hours of recitation from five world renowned qurrāʾ. No web scraped noise. No incidental content.
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Tajwīd aware
The model is calibrated to respect elongations, pauses, and articulation rules, not just match phonemes.
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Streaming first
Designed to recognize recitation as it happens, with sub second latency, so that feedback feels alive.
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On device privacy
Where the platform allows, recitation is processed on device. Voice is sacred. We treat it that way.
Products
One engine, many surfaces.
The Hafiz AI engine powers a growing family of products. Each one is shipped under its own brand, with the same uncompromising standard.
Available now
Hafiz API
A streaming Arabic speech recognition API tuned for the Qur'an. For developers building tafsīr tools, masjid apps, classrooms, and learning experiences.
hafiz-ai.com/apiHafiz ASR
The open recitation intelligence model behind it all. Trained on the Hafiz AI corpus, evaluated on character error rate against held out reciters, and continuously improved.
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By the numbers
A model that actually hears you.
We didn't just train another speech model. We took the world's best multilingual speech engine, tuned it on the Qur'an, and shipped it for every voice — your accent, your microphone, your speed.
6,236
ayahs covered
The complete Qur'an, every Juz
The complete Qur'an, every Juz
680khrs
audio pretrained on
Multilingual, every accent
Multilingual, every accent
<200ms
average response
Real-time on a laptop GPU
Real-time on a laptop GPU
96%
letter accuracy
On unseen reciters & voices
On unseen reciters & voices
Built on the world's strongest speech model.
Most Quran apps train tiny custom models on a handful of professional reciters. Their transcription falls apart the moment a child, a sister, or a grandfather opens his mouth. We did the opposite — we started where the rest of the world stopped, and tuned it for the Qur'an.
- EngineWhisper · Quran-tunedBuilt on OpenAI's flagship speech architecture
- SpeakersSpeaker-independentChildren, women, men — every accent works out of the box
- TrainingTarteel + EveryAyahVerified Quran recitation, from Al-Afāsī to Ash-Shāṭrī
- Latency85–270 ms per ayahFaster than you can blink, on a consumer GPU
- PrivacyRun it on your own machineAudio never leaves your device — built for masjids and homes
Live verification
cross-speaker · same ayah
As-Sudais → مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ ✓
Al-Ḥuṣarī → مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ ✓
User #1 → مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ ✓
User #2 → مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ ✓
Identical output. Different voices, mics, rooms.
Our mission
Make the Qur'an understood by every device the Ummah carries.
From a child's first attempt at Al-Fātiḥah to the late night murājaʿah of a hāfiẓ, Hafiz AI is building the recitation intelligence that listens, helps, and protects. May Allah accept this small effort.