# Jais ASR

**IFM/Jais-ASR** is IFM's state-of-the-art speech recognition model for Arabic as it is spoken. It is based on IFM/Jais-3-4B.

- **Transcriptions API:** Available
- **Hugging Face:** [IFM/Jais-ASR](https://huggingface.co/collections/IFM/jais-speech)
- **Language coverage:** Arabic + Multiple Arabic Dialects + English, French, Spanish, and Italian

## Capabilities

- **Dialects.** Transcribes Modern Standard Arabic and dialects from across the Arab world, and identifies the language or dialect being spoken.
- **Code-switching.** Follows speakers as they switch between Arabic and English, French, Spanish, or Italian, keeping those words in their original script.
- **Diacritization.** Optionally adds Arabic vowel marks to the transcript.
- **No-speech detection.** Returns an explicit signal when there is no speech to transcribe.

## Limits

- Maximum file size: 32 MB
- Maximum audio length: 15 minutes

See [Transcriptions API](https://docs.ifm.ai/docs/transcription.md) for request parameters and response fields.

## Model

| Model | Architecture | API | Weights |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IFM/Jais-ASR | Speech-to-text | [Yes](https://docs.ifm.ai/docs/transcription.md) | [View](https://huggingface.co/collections/IFM/jais-speech) |

_Last updated: October 15, 2026_