TII releases Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B speech recognition model focused on Emirati Arabic

The Technology Innovation Institute introduces Falcon-ASR, a 1.6 billion parameter speech recognition model for Arabic with a focus on the Emirati dialect.

On six Arabic test sets it reports an average word error rate of 20.92%, versus 23.17% for the best published leaderboard result it compared against.

The model also transcribes English, French, Spanish and Portuguese with the same weights, and a demo Space is available while API access and native apps are planned.