The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6 billion parameter speech recognition model focused on Arabic, particularly the Emirati dialect. Falcon-ASR achieved an average word error rate of 20.92% across six Arabic test sets on the ELM Research Center's Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard, 2.25 percentage points better than the best published result. It also supports English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, plus word-level timestamps.
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