TII releases Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B Arabic speech model

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The Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi has released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6-billion-parameter speech recognition model built primarily for Arabic, with particular attention to the Emirati dialect. On the Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard's six test sets, Falcon-ASR achieved an average word…

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1. 2026-10-09 05:57 · DEV Community — AI
   TII releases Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B Arabic speech model