TII releases Falcon ASR, a 1.6B speech model for Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese

The Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi released Falcon ASR, a 1.6B-parameter model with one set of weights for five languages. TII reports 20.92% average word error rate on Arabic, against 23.17% for the best published result in its comparison, and 5.74% on English. The Emirati-dialect result is from TII's own evaluation. A demo is up.

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