TII releases Falcon-ASR Arabic speech recognition model
What happened
On 7 October 2026, the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi released the Falcon-ASR speech recognition model. According to the Hugging Face Blog, the model has 1.6B parameters and focuses on Arabic, particularly Emirati dialects, while also supporting English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Reports so far cover only the model release, with no further technical details or future plans disclosed.
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- Hugging Face BlogIntroducing Falcon ASR
We’re introducing Falcon-ASR, our 1.6 billion parameter speech recognition model for Arabic, with a particular focus on the Emirati dialect. Developed at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, it also supports English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
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