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Introducing Falcon ASR: A 1.6 Billion Parameter Speech Recognition Model for Arabic

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Hugging Face has introduced Falcon-ASR, a speech recognition model with 1.6 billion parameters, specifically designed for Arabic, focusing on the Emirati dialect. The model achieved an average word error rate (WER) of 20.92% across six Arabic test sets, outperforming the previous best result of 23.17%. Falcon-ASR also supports English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, using the same model weights for transcription.

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Falcon-ASR is a new model that significantly improves Arabic speech recognition accuracy compared to previous models.

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Falcon-ASR achieved an average WER of 20.92% across six Arabic test sets.

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Falcon-ASR supports English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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The model was developed at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi.

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Falcon-ASR recorded the lowest WER and CER among the systems compared in the Emirati evaluation.

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Introducing Falcon ASR

Hugging Face·2h ago