{"id":419984,"date":"2025-09-02T18:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.menatech.net\/?p=415472"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:28:15","slug":"arabic-dialect-ai-a-conversation-on-building-effective-local-ai-models-interview-with-the-ceo-of-maqsam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/arabic-dialect-ai-a-conversation-on-building-effective-local-ai-models-interview-with-the-ceo-of-maqsam\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabic-Dialect AI: A Conversation on Building Effective Local AI Models | Interview with the CEO of Maqsam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f3pbh\" data-offset-key=\"53g91-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mk\" data-offset-key=\"53g91-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a2voj-0-0\">In this podcast, Fouad Jeryes, Co-founder and CEO of Maqsam, reveals how his company built AI technology that outperforms giants like Microsoft, Meta, and Google in Arabic speech-to-text conversion. He discusses the unique challenges of the Arabic language and their AI&#8217;s ability to understand all dialects from the Gulf to Morocco. He also explains how Maqsam is transforming Arab call centers through automation. Jeryes shares his experience, built over 12 years of entrepreneurship and 4 startups with his co-founder Sinan, in developing world-class solutions for communication problems in the region.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this podcast, Fouad Jeryes, Co-founder and CEO of Maqsam, reveals how his company built AI technology that outperforms giants like Microsoft, Meta, and Google in Arabic speech-to-text conversion. He discusses the unique challenges of the Arabic language and their AI&#8217;s ability to understand all dialects from the Gulf to Morocco. He also explains how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":433428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":[],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29345,29339],"tags":[29352,29387],"audience-intent":[],"content-types":[],"country":[],"entity":[],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-419984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-interviews","category-videos","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-video-interviews","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419984"},{"taxonomy":"audience-intent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience-intent?post=419984"},{"taxonomy":"content-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-types?post=419984"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=419984"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=419984"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=419984"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=419984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}