about

Assalamu alaykum.

Ever hear a recitation and wonder what it is? shazamzam listens for a few seconds and tells you the surah and ayah, with the Arabic text, a transliteration, and an English translation.

It works for recordings and for live recitation, and it is forgiving: you can recite to it yourself, imperfectly, and it will usually still find the ayah. Results follow the Hafs reading.

There is no account, no ads, and nothing to install. Your audio is used only to answer your request and is never stored: see privacy.

For the curious: a speech model tuned for recitation transcribes what it hears, and that rough transcript is then located in the fixed text of the Quran. Because the Quran is one known book, a few imperfect seconds are usually enough to find the exact ayah. And Allah knows best.

credits

shazamzam is built on generous open work:

• Tarteel AI's Quran-tuned speech model, a fine-tune of OpenAI's Whisper
• The Tanzil project: verified Quran text, the Saheeh International translation, and the transliteration shown with every result, used with attribution as their license asks
• faster-whisper, CTranslate2, FastAPI, and Zola
• The Amiri Quran typeface by Khaled Hosny, and Inter by Rasmus Andersson
• EveryAyah's per-ayah recitation audio, used for testing