Introducing Falcon ASR

Hugging Face · 1 week ago · 22 ● 2 sources

Falcon-ASR was released as a 1.6B-parameter speech recognition model built by TII, focused on transcribing Arabic—especially the Emirati dialect—and also supporting English plus French, Spanish, and Portuguese. It reported an average Arabic word error rate of 20.92% across six test sets and achieved 22.73% WER with 10.19% CER on an internal Emirati evaluation. It adds word-level timestamps and is offered via a Hugging Face demo with planned API and native applications.