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TII releases Falcon-ASR, an Arabic speech recognition model with an Emirati focus
Key points
- 1.6 billion parameter model; also transcribes English, French, Spanish and Portuguese with the same weights.
- Averages 20.92% WER across six Arabic test sets, versus 23.17% for the best published leaderboard result.
- Internal Emirati evaluation: 22.73% WER and 10.19% CER, 4.07 points below Qwen3-Omni, the next best.
- Live now as a Hugging Face Demo Space; API access and native applications are planned, not yet available.
Why it matters for marketers: Teams producing Arabic or Gulf-dialect transcripts or captions can test a free demo now, though API access is not yet released.
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