Azerbaijani speech recognition

Most speech engines don’t speak Azerbaijani. They guess.

Ask a global speech service to transcribe an Azerbaijani call and you usually get back fluent, confident text — in Turkish. Chinar is built for Azerbaijani, in three models: Chinar-F for every call at volume, Chinar-L for transcripts people read, Chinar-P for sites without a GPU.

23%fewer word errors on real calls than a commercial cloud speech service (Chinar-F)
8 kHztrained on phone-quality audio from real call centres, not studio recordings
100%on your own infrastructure — no call audio leaves the building
26×faster than real time on four CPU cores, with no GPU (Chinar-P)
The problem

Why Chinar exists

In Turkish

Confident, and wrong

Ask a global speech service for an Azerbaijani transcript and it returns fluent Turkish. It looks like a working transcript — and unless someone on your team reads Azerbaijani, nobody notices until the text reaches a report.

Unsupported

A gap, not a tuning problem

Two major 2026 speech services tested head to head on the same audio — one commercial, one open — produced Azerbaijani output that was effectively unusable. They do not support the language at all.

Read speech

Trained on the wrong audio

Many engines learn from clean, read-aloud recordings and fall apart on a real conversation: background noise, interruptions, two people talking at once, ordinary phone-line quality.

Per hour

Metered, and off your premises

Transcribing every call through a cloud service means paying by the hour and handing customer conversations to a third party that keeps its own copy.

What it does

Built to do the job, end to end

For volume

Chinar-F

A compact model trained on real Azerbaijani call-centre recordings at phone quality, and our most accurate model on real calls: 23% fewer word errors than a commercial cloud speech service on the same call recordings. Cheap per hour on CPU or GPU, so every call gets transcribed rather than a sample.

For people

Chinar-L

Writes punctuation, capitals and numbers as digits, ready to put in front of a supervisor, an auditor or a customer. About 90% word accuracy on clear Azerbaijani speech it has never heard, measured against human-checked transcripts.

For the edge

Chinar-P

A compact model that needs no GPU: 26× faster than real time on four CPU cores, with punctuation and capitals. On real calls it is on a par with a commercial cloud speech service — on a server you already own.

📞 Real phone calls, not studio audio

Trained on genuine call-centre recordings — background noise, interruptions, people talking over each other, ordinary phone-line quality.

🏠 Your recordings stay yours

Chinar runs on your own infrastructure. Customer conversations never leave your building: no per-hour metering, no third-party retention, no questions about where the audio went.

Choose a model

Three models — pick the size for the job

Chinar-FChinar-LChinar-P
Built forEvery call at volume: QA, search, analyticsDocuments people read: minutes, reports, subtitlesSites without a GPU: branches, closed networks
Accuracy on phone callsHighest — 23% fewer errors than a commercial cloud serviceHigh, close to Chinar-FOn a par with a commercial cloud service
Readable textBasicBest — punctuation, capitals, numbers as digitsPunctuation and capitals
HardwareCPU or GPUGPUCPU or GPU — no GPU needed
Cost at volumeLowestMediumLow
How it works

From input to outcome

  1. Pick the model for the job — Chinar-F for volume, Chinar-L for documents people read, Chinar-P for sites without a GPU
  2. Deploy it on your own infrastructure, inside your own network
  3. Send audio through the API: call recordings, interviews, meetings
  4. Chinar-F transcribes every call; Chinar-L returns punctuated, capitalised Azerbaijani text with numbers as digits; Chinar-P does the job on an ordinary CPU
  5. Feed the transcripts into reports, search, analytics or quality monitoring
Who it’s for

Made for the people who use it

Call centers & customer service

Transcribe every conversation instead of a sample, and read the result in Azerbaijani without translating it first.

Compliance & quality teams

Punctuated transcripts fit to sit in a compliance record, produced without sending the recording to a third party.

Analytics & data teams

Run Chinar-F across an archive to power search, analytics and quality monitoring at a cost per hour that makes full coverage affordable.

Media, research & public sector

Interviews and meetings transcribed in Azerbaijani, on infrastructure you control.

Why Chinar

What sets it apart

It actually speaks the language

In head-to-head testing on the same audio, two major 2026 speech services — one commercial, one open — produced Azerbaijani output that was effectively unusable. Chinar handled the same recordings correctly. That gap is not a tuning difference: those services do not support the language at all.

Real phone calls, not studio audio

Chinar is trained on genuine call-centre recordings, with the noise, the interruptions and the phone-line quality that come with them. Many engines are trained on read speech and fall apart on a real conversation.

Three models, one command of the language

Chinar-F, Chinar-L and Chinar-P are all trained on Azerbaijani phone audio, so you pick the size for the job rather than the language support: F for volume, L for documents people read, P for sites without a GPU. None of them bills per minute — the cost does not grow with call volume.

Yours to control

Chinar runs on your own infrastructure, so customer conversations never leave your building: no audio goes to a third party, nothing is retained outside your network, and no per-hour meter runs against a cloud account.

Chinar
chi-NAR · çinar

Where the name comes from

The çinar is the oriental plane tree — the broad, long-lived tree that shades courtyards and village squares across Azerbaijan, old enough that people meet under the same one their grandparents did. It is a local thing, deeply rooted, and it outlasts whatever is planted beside it. The name fits a speech model built for this language rather than borrowed from the one next door.

Get started

See Chinar on your own data

Evaluation partners get private access: send us an hour of your Azerbaijani recordings, score Chinar against your own transcripts, and we review the results together.

We use these details only to contact you about Chinar.

Accuracy figures are measured against human-checked transcripts — of real Azerbaijani call-centre recordings, and of clear speech held out from training. Noisier audio scores lower; your results will depend on your audio.