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TII releases 1.6B Falcon-ASR, claims 20.92% Arabic WER against best listed 23.17%
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B-parameter speech recognition model focused on Arabic and the Emirati dialect. TII claims a 20.92% average word error rate across six Arabic test sets, versus 23.17% for the next-best system on the leaderboard snapshot it used. A demo is live on Hugging Face. Pricing and API availability have not been disclosed.
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