شو عم تعمل؟
Arabic script, in dialect
Lebanese words in Arabic letters. Close to Arabic on the page, far from the Arabic most models learned.
Technology
Built for the way dialects are written and spoken.
Most language models learn from standard, edited text. People don't write or talk to each other that way. Lebanese.ai is a language model for low-resource dialects, in text and in audio: it understands a dialect as people really type it or say it, then answers in the form you need, even in three languages within the same sentence.
Patent pendingUSPTO provisional application 64/021,845
The problem
One dialect, many forms.
The same Lebanese sentence reaches a business typed three different ways, or spoken, often inside one conversation.
shu 3am ta3mel?
Arabizi
Latin letters, with numbers standing in for sounds Latin can't write.
2 ء3 ع5 خ7 ح
Lebanese+ English+ français
Code-switching
English and French move in and out of the same sentence. The model follows the switch instead of breaking on it, and it can talk the same way: Arabic, English and French in one sentence.
Spoken dialect
Lebanese.ai works on audio as well as text: it understands spoken dialect and answers out loud, in dialect.
How it works
Four steps from what was said to what was meant.
- Step 1
Dialect input
Text or audio arrives as people type it or say it: Arabic script, Arabizi, a mix, or speech.
shu3amta3mel - Step 2
Normalisation
Spellings, scripts and sounds are mapped to one form the model can reason over.
3am→عم - Step 3
Dialect memory
The model applies what it knows about how the dialect is really used.
dialectcontext - Step 4
Output
The answer comes back in dialect, Modern Standard Arabic, English or French, or in all three languages mixed in one sentence.
شو عم تعمل؟
Live example
One input. Four answers.
The approved demo sentence, typed in Arabizi, comes back in Lebanese Arabic script, Modern Standard Arabic, English and French.
LEBANESE.AI · DEMO
Typed in Arabizi
shu 3am ta3mel
How the model reads it
shu3amta3mel
Lebanese · Arabic script
شو عم تعمل؟
Modern Standard Arabic
ماذا تفعل؟
English
What are you doing?
French
Qu'est-ce que tu fais ?
Hear it
It speaks Lebanese, too.
Two real recordings from a Lebanese.ai voice assistant taking a shop order. Listen for how it moves between Lebanese and English in the same sentence, the way people here actually talk.
0:07
Recording 1 · confirming an order
Okay، بدّك ٣ تي شيرتات size medium، بس عم لخّصلك طلبك وما رح أعمل طلبية.
“Okay, you want 3 T-shirts, size medium. I’m just summarising your order, I won’t place it yet.”
0:07
Recording 2 · checking before ordering
شفت إنّك بدّك ٣ تي شيرتات... المقاس medium، وما عملت أي طلبية.
“I see you want 3 T-shirts… size medium, and I haven’t placed any order.”
Unedited recordings from the working model. Lebanese dialect with English mixed in.
Where it runs
The engine behind Linguini's products.
Lebanese.ai is the model. Linguini packages it into products businesses and governments can use.
API
Send dialect text or audio in, get understanding and translation back.
Website widget
A chat that answers customers in the dialect they typed.
Voice and WhatsApp agent
Conversations on the channels people already use, typed or spoken.