Tarteel – AI-powered Quran companion

[abdellah123]

Great job. This is a very interesting topic to explore. Does the app use a custom built model for Arabic or does it use Whisper or another general purpose model?

[nraf]

I’m not involved in the project, I’ve just been using it recently and was surprised to see it hadn’t been posted on HN.

It uses Whisper from what I can tell, they’ve released a few models on huggingface: https://huggingface.co/tarteel-ai

[tifa2up]

It uses Nvidia's Riva and NeMo: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtcfall21-a31...

[l-albertovich]

I'm not into the topic of religious text memorization but I do think the tech is pretty neat and could be really helpful in other areas.

I hope they explore those alternative applications.

[2Gkashmiri]

Nice. How about this. This is essentially a shazam for the Quran. Right?

So how about this.

You are watching TV, you hear someone recite a verse and you use tarteel to find out the verse and find where in the Quran it's at. (Right now it can do that) so along with mistakes, it should give tafsir and insight into the verse, like when it came to be or any story surrounding the verse, any other connecting verse to the current one hyperlinking them.

You can have stuff like supplementary hadith that are on the topic of the verse and how there are various sahih and da'if hadith that all claim to say something but how they link back to the verse.

Sounds too much for a single app but why not give it a try?

[ramoq]

great product built by a great team. I personally haven’t used it, but many of my friends do and praise it.

Congrats to the Tarteel team. Allahumma Baarik

[erenyeager]

This app is great for easily jumping to a section by reciting a part of a verse. The mistake detection is also decent. Would be interesting to see if tajweed training and mistake detection could be integrated.

[zakki]

I can’t find their privacy policy for the users

[elashri]

it's in the website footer and the link is provided in app store description [1]

[1] https://www.tarteel.ai/privacy

[uxx]

Impressive, it was only about time!

[mrwnmonm]

But which shikh did this AI get it's igaza from? :)

[saargrin]

i just wonder what is Islam's opinion on AI

[elashri]

AI at the end of the day is a term that describes a lot of tools that has something in common. Islamic opinion will depend on how you use this tool for. If you are developing a drone swarm that will be used to kill people in the war or if you are developing a robot swarm to help do difficult jobs inside factories. It might be the same concept or technology but the usage is very different from Islamic perspective.

Another example is the usage of famous ChatGPT. A student can use it to correct English mistakes or for some help in their school work or they can use it to cheat and produce the full homework or exam. People can use it to write and publish porn stories or can use it to help them write a useful book. Islam also put a special important on intent of the action.

[number6]

Asked a Islamic friend: the consensus is, that it is another tool, like a knife, can be used for good and bad.

Well that's one opinion; bet you can find another option that's totally different

[darthrupert]

Why would a religion invented 1200 years before AI have any opinions about AI?

[mrwnmonm]

Why this is relevant?

[aorth]

Not defending Muhammad or Islam, but there is at least some recent opinion in academia that the entire story was fabricated for political reasons. An interesting read!

https://newlinesmag.com/essays/oxford-study-sheds-light-on-m...