Introducing Meta Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition | Transcription for 1,600+ languages

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Introducing Meta Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), a suite of models providing ASR capabilities for over 1,600 languages, including 500 low-coverage languages never before served by any ASR system. While most ASR systems focus on a limited set of languages that are well-represented on the internet, this release marks a major step toward building a truly universal transcription system. 🔗 Learn more: https://go.meta.me/9c8b8b Highlights include: - State-of-the-art performance with character error rates below 10% for 78% of supported languages. - First large-scale ASR framework with in-context learning, enabling extension to…

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