Introducing Falcon ASR huggingface.co

The Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi introduced Falcon-ASR, a 1.6-billion-parameter speech recognition model focused on Arabic, especially Emirati, that also supports English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. TII reports a 20.92% average word error rate across six Arabic benchmarks—below the best published result it compared against—and 22.73% on its internal Emirati evaluation.