Hugging Face and partners released Falcon-Emirati-7B, a Falcon-based LLM for Emirati Arabic, and introduced Falcon ASR, an Arabic-focused speech recognition model
Model release Provisional 86% confidence first seen
Hugging Face published coverage of two new model releases: Falcon-Emirati-7B, a Falcon-H1-Arabic-based language model specialized for Emirati Arabic, and Falcon ASR, a 1.6B-parameter speech recognition model aimed at transcribing Arabic with emphasis on the Emirati dialect. The posts include benchmark results for Emirati dialect fidelity and reported word/character error rate metrics for the speech model, along with availability via a Hugging Face demo and plans for additional access methods.