Abu Dhabi's new Arabic AI can understand dialects, retain English terms in speech

Khaleej Times · Ahmed Waqqas Alawlaqi · 2026-11-06 13:50 UTC

Jais 3 brings speech, dialect recognition and task automation together, but making AI genuinely useful across the Arab world remains a difficult scientific challenge.

Jais 3 combines Arabic speech recognition with the ability to follow instructions, use software tools and perform sequences of tasks

- PUBLISHED: Fri 6 Nov 2026, 5:50 PM

A government meeting conducted in Emirati Arabic may move naturally between local expressions, formal language and English technical terms. The decisions made during that meeting must eventually become written records, assigned tasks and perhaps a presentation. For an artificial intelligence system, understanding the words is only the beginning. The harder challenge is turning that conversation into completed work without losing its meaning.

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