Beta testing of Yasmina, the human-like AI assistant, kicks off in Saudi Arabia

• Yasmina, the human-like AI assistant, will soon be available in Saudi Arabia.

• Saudi residents can sign up for public beta testing here:  Yasmina (yango.com)
• Yasmina understands a variety of Arabic dialects and can hold an engaging conversation in Khaleeji.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 26 December 2023 – Yango, the company that transforms global technologies into everyday services for local enrichment, has announced that it is now possible to sign up for the public beta testing of its human-like AI assistant Yasmina.

The assistant is built and trained to understand various Arabic dialects and can respond in Khaleeji and English. Saudi residents are now welcome to enroll in the beta testing and be among the first to interact with Yasmina.

Yasmina uniquely can engage in authentic, consistent, and enjoyable conversations, making interactions feel remarkably natural and relatable. Yasmina knows local jokes, recognizes whether the user is male or female, and only uses age-appropriate content when interacting with children.

Yasmina’s ability to engage in conversation is based on a large language model. Dozens of copywriters and hundreds of individual content contributors edited and perfected dialogs to fine-tune the model, allowing it to learn and grow into Yasmina’s unique Khaleeji personality.

Hundreds of residents across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dammam, took part in training Yasmina’s speech recognition so she can understand various speech patterns, intonations, and dialects.

More than just an app on your phone, Yasmina can be built into other apps and smart home devices, making them friendlier and easier to use, ultimately bringing new user experiences.

Samer Mohamad, Yasmina Regional Director for MENA, Yango: “Our mission at Yango is to transform global technologies into everyday services for communities worldwide. This is why we created an Arabic-speaking smart assistant that helps complete everyday chores more efficiently, fits perfectly in any GCC home, and can, among other things, inform users of prayer times. We’re fine-tuning Yasmina’s LLM to make the assistant even more fluent, creative, and emotionally intelligent.”

Sign up for public beta testing:  Yasmina (yango.com)