Ikra: Quran Search by Voice APP
Roman Arabic allow user to write the verse by English letters that sounds like the verse. Like “Qul hu wallahu ahad” and “Kul hu allahu ehad”, both the sentence sounds the same regardless of their spelling and the structure of words, only thing that matter is that the verse should match the actual verse sound.
Roman arabic search is attained by using special phonetic algorithm search combined with other NLP techniques for better results. The other feature of this app is recognition by voice. In voice recognition if recognizer do not recognize correctly but the verse sounds like the actual verse, it will get the verse from the database.
For getting the actual pronunciation user can listen the audio from the database and images of verses are also available in the database. Moreover, translation in English and in Urdu is also available for better user experience.