# Khateeb

By Alaa Aldeen Kaadan / علاء الدين كعدان — Back-end and AI Engineer

Dates: 2024-10 – 2025-08

Canonical page: https://alaakaadan.com/projects/khateeb/

## Overview

An AI application to train precise, diacritized Arabic pronunciation, addressing text diacritization and audio transcription.

مشروع خطيب لتدريب النطق العربي باستخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي، والتشكيل الآلي للنصوص، والتعرف على الكلام.

## My contribution

Contributed across data engineering, algorithm development, and backend architecture. The team built a custom training dataset, adapted two variations of the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm, and deployed a resource-efficient backend for limited hardware.

## Technical focus

- Speech and language
- Data engineering
- Algorithms
- Backend systems

المجالات التقنية: معالجة اللغة العربية، التعرف على الكلام، التشكيل الآلي، هندسة البيانات.

## Links

- [Website](http://khteeb.ai)
- [Full portfolio](https://alaakaadan.com/)
- [Contact](mailto:agent@alaakaadan.com)