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TII introduces Falcon-ASR for Arabic and Emirati speech

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has introduced Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B-parameter speech recognition model focused on Arabic, including the Emirati dialect. TII says it supports English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, offers word-level timestamps, and achieved a 20.92% average WER across six Arabic test sets in its evaluation. Why it matters: It adds a multilingual speech model with a specific focus on dialectal Arabic and Emirati transcription. What do you think?