Columbus, Ohio · Native Levantine · MSA

I listen to how Arabic is really spoken, and turn it into clear, trustworthy text for people and machines.

Hamed
Alammar
حامد العمار
AboutTen years inside the Arabic language

Arabic is the language I work in every day. I record it, edit it, transcribe it, and moderate it for large audiences, and I notice the small things that change meaning from one speaker to the next.

Portrait of Hamed Alammar
10+ yrsworking in Arabic every day
1M+audience of the bilingual studio he produces for
45Kmembers in the community network he founded
5varieties of Arabic he works across
WorkAudio, archives, and building things

Selected work

mhmd3mmr Media2020 · Present

Audio Producer and Editor

Records and edits Arabic and English interviews for a bilingual studio. Judges every take on clarity, noise, and natural spoken rhythm before release.

RecordingEditingBilingual
miheen.com2020 · Present

Oral History Archive

Editor and Archive Reviewer

Listens to, transcribes, and classifies recorded Syrian testimony, often from elderly speakers and noisy recordings, marking what is certain and what is not.

TranscriptionClassificationDialects
AI training platforms2024 · 2026

AI Data Annotator

Transcribed and annotated Arabic and English data and ranked model answers against written rubrics, with clear reasoning for every decision.

AnnotationRubricsEvaluation
SAFWAH · AlHramayn LLC2023 · 2026

Founder and Store Manager

Built and ran a retail business end to end: sales, inventory, staff, suppliers, and customer service.

OperationsLeadership
DialectsOne language, many sounds

The map he hears

Levantineشامي
How are you?
كيفك؟
Now
هلّق
I want
بدّي
What?
شو؟

Hamed's native dialect. Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine.

AI LabTranscription and model evaluation

Teaching machines to listen

Good speech data starts with a careful ear. Hamed transcribes exactly what was said, labels dialect and disfluencies, and explains every judgment call so a model learns from real speech, not from guesses.

  • Outlier (Scale AI)
  • Mercor
  • Alignerr
  • Surge AI
  • Appen
  • Prolific
  • Verbatim Arabic transcriptionnoisy · accented
  • Dialect and register labelingLEV · GLF · EGY · MAG · MSA
  • Prosody and disfluency taggingstress · rhythm · fillers
  • Ranking model answersrubric based
Sample annotation · illustrative00:00:07.4

إيه يعني... هلّق بدنا نروح عالسوق بس، اممم، الطقس كتير شوب اليوم.

Ranking · "Say 'I'm on my way' in Egyptian Arabic"

Aأنا في الطريقMSA, not Egyptian
Bأنا جاي في السكةPreferred

B uses everyday Egyptian phrasing (⁨جاي، السكة⁩). A is correct Arabic but ignores the dialect the prompt asked for.

CommunityBuilding networks in Arabic
45,000+

Syrians in Jordan

Founded in 2015, the network grew to more than 45,000 members. Hamed wrote and moderated its daily Arabic communication.

2025

Syrian Network in the United States

Founded in 2025 to connect Syrian community members across the United States.

Education

  • Diploma in Computer Science, Kiron2019
  • Business Administration, Community College2025
  • Photography and Mobile Apps, SAE2018

Recognition

  • NASA Innovation Award, National 2nd Place2017
  • Kiron Digital Innovation Award, 2nd Place2020
  • JRS Outstanding Student Commitment2021