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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.