About LEXA Audify
Every Urdu and Arabic book deserves a voice
LEXA Audify is made by Arabian AI Lab, an AI studio in Dubai building tools for Urdu, Arabic and the languages of the Global South. Audify turns books into audiobooks and read-along videos, and recites poetry the way the masters recite it.
Our mission
Many Urdu and Arabic books have never had an audio edition. Studio recording costs too much for most titles, and ordinary text-to-speech tools were not built for Nastaliq, for metre, or for books that quote the Quran.
Audify exists to close that gap: paste a book and get, for every chapter, an audiobook file, a read-along page with the spoken line highlighted, and a ready video. It is a narration tool that understands the weight of a couplet and the care owed to sacred text, built by someone who reads and writes in these traditions himself.
Our values
Respect for the text
Nastaliq for Urdu, Naskh for Arabic, metre for poetry. The words on the page are never changed; only how they are spoken can be corrected.
Care for the sacred
Quranic verses are never given to a machine voice. They stay on the page and in the video, and the audio pauses.
Honest and open to all
No copied voices without recorded consent, no charge for audio that was not delivered, and 100 free credits so anyone can try a first chapter.
The founder
BUILT BY
Tabish Zaidi
Founder, Arabian AI Lab, Dubai
A poet from a four-generation family of Urdu poetry and scholarship, with two decades in enterprise technology across the Middle East. He holds an Oxford Saïd–UNESCO certification in AI and Digital Transformation in Government, and was recognised at NVIDIA Studio Nights at the Museum of the Future.
Featured in Gulf News at the Sharjah International Book Fair 2025, where his live AI-interpretation platform translated sessions for live audiences into six languages, including Arabic. A cultural diplomat and Urdu literary organiser through Bazm-e-Urdu Dubai.
“I built Audify because a book that is never heard reaches only half its readers. Urdu and Arabic books deserve a voice that respects their script, their metre and their sacred text.”
The company
Arabian AI Lab is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Audify is part of the LEXA family, alongside LEXA Translate and LexaOCR: scan a book, translate it, and give it a voice.
Hear your own book
Narrate a first chapter free with 100 credits. No card needed.