Qur’anic Universal Audio is an open project for Qur’an audio, recitation metadata, and word/letter level timestamps generation with a built-in review system. The goal is to make Qur’an recitation audio easier to browse, verify, align, and use across different apps, tools, and research projects.

Instead of every Qur’an app having to solve the same problems separately — audio sources, reciter metadata, ayah and word timing/synchronization — this project aims to provide a shared foundation for the wider Qur’an tech community. It can help support features such as:

* Ayah-by-ayah follow-along
* Word-by-word synchronization
* Letter-level and phoneme-level timing
* Compilation of recitations from mainstream Qur'an audio sources
* Reciter and recitation metadata
* Timestamp visualization and correction
* Community review and improvement of data
* Better tools for Qur’an apps, researchers, and developers

In simple terms: A shared Qur’an audio and timing hub for developers, researchers, and community contributors.

We have reached over 25+ fully published recitations with word and letter timestamps, with more being aligned every day. You can help and contribute by resolving any mistakes using the built-in editing tool which flags a wide range of potential errors the AI alignment might have made, as well as contributing by adding your own recitations.

Website: [https://huggingface.co/spaces/hetchyy/quranic-universal-audio](https://huggingface.co/spaces/hetchyy/quranic-universal-audio)

GitHub: [https://github.com/Wider-Community/quranic-universal-audio](https://github.com/Wider-Community/quranic-universal-audio) 

Timestamps data: [https://github.com/Wider-Community/quranic-universal-audio/releases](https://github.com/Wider-Community/quranic-universal-audio/releases)

Qur'anic Universal Audio: the unified audio and timing hub for apps/developers