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Mistral releases open-source real-time Arabic speech-to-text model Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime Arabic

Mistral AI has released Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime Arabic, a streaming speech-to-text model fine-tuned for Arabic dialects, Modern Standard Arabic, and code-switching between languages. The 4.4-billion-parameter model processes 16 kHz audio in real time with a configurable transcription delay, achieving an 8.82% average Character Error Rate across seven Arabic benchmarks at a 480ms delay — close to the offline Voxtral Transcribe Arabic model's 7.91% CER. It was co-developed with Morocco's digital transition ministry as part of a sovereign AI partnership and is released under Apache 2.0.

8 Oct 2026Mistral AI (Hugging Face)

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

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6 billion parameter automatic speech recognition model built primarily for Arabic, with particular focus on the Emirati dialect. It also transcribes English, French, Spanish and Portuguese using the same model weights. TII reports it beats the best published leaderboard result on a standard Arabic benchmark and leads on an internal Emirati evaluation, while also including word-level timestamps.

7 Oct 2026Hugging Face