Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...

Omnilingual ASR has been released as an open-source tool, encouraging Meta to attract researchers, developers, and organisations to use the platform. (Image: Unsplash) Facebook parent Meta has ...

Are humans or machines better at recognizing speech? A new study shows that in noisy conditions, current automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems achieve remarkable accuracy and sometimes even ...

With the development of voice assistants, transcription services, and accessibility technologies, ASR has become a vital technology. However, ASR systems conventionally have focused on a few popular ...