Khalid al-Qahtani

About recitation data

Every recitation on QUL comes as audio files plus segment data — the timestamps that say which word is being recited at which moment. Segments are what lets you highlight words as the audio plays.

Recitations come in one of two shapes:

Surah by surah (gapless)

• 114 audio files, one per surah.
• Each file plays the whole surah without pauses between ayahs.
• Segments tell you where each ayah starts and ends inside that one long file.

Ayah by ayah (gapped)

• 6,236 audio files, one per ayah.
• Each file contains a single ayah, so you can play one ayah without downloading a whole surah.
• Segments are relative to the start of that ayah's own file.

Data format

Ayah by ayah

{
  "surah": 1,
  "ayah": 1,
  "audio_url": "https://.../001001.mp3",
  "segments": [
    [1, 361, 1051],
    [2, 1051, 1622]
  ]
}

Surah by surah

Keyed by surah:ayah. timestamp_from and timestamp_to locate the ayah inside the surah's audio file; the word timings inside segments use the same clock.

{
  "1:1": {
    "segments": [
      [1, 361, 1051],
      [2, 1051, 1622],
      [3, 1662, 2763],
      [4, 2803, 4385]
    ],
    "duration_sec": 4,
    "duration_ms": 4224,
    "timestamp_from": 361,
    "timestamp_to": 4585
  }
}