Meta returns to open source AI with Omnilingual ASR models that can transcribe 1,600+ languages natively

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing ...

Meta Expands AI Speech Recognition to 1,600+ Languages

Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition can transcribe speech in over 1,600 languages — including 500 low-resource languages ...
SiliconANGLE

Meta AI open-sources tools for self-supervised training of speech recognition models

Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team today said it has open-sourced a new project called Massively Multilingual Speech, which aims to overcome the challenges of creating ...

aiOla unveils Drax, an open-source speech model with state-of-the-art accuracy and up to 5× faster than models from direct competitors

PRNewswire/ -- aiOla, a voice-AI lab advancing speech recognition technology, is announcing today Drax, an open-source AI model that brings flow-matching-based generative methods to speech. By ...
VentureBeat

Mistral’s Voxtral goes beyond transcription with summarization, speech-triggered functions

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Mistral released an open-sourced voice ...
Engadget

Meta’s open-source speech AI recognizes over 4,000 spoken languages

Meta has created an AI language model that (in a refreshing change of pace) isn’t a ChatGPT clone. The company’s Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project can recognize over 4,000 spoken languages ...

Drax model from aiOla makes AI speech recognition viable and reliable in noisy environments

With Drax, aiOla says, it has come up with a novel technique for training speech recognition systems that’s finally able to ...
Nature

Speech Recognition and Neural Networks

The field of speech recognition has experienced transformative advances owing to the integration of neural network methodologies. Modern systems now merge statistical approaches with deep learning, ...
Hackaday

Robust Speech-to-Text, Running Locally On Quest VR Headset

[saurabhchalke] recently released whisper.unity, a Unity package that implements whisper locally on the Meta Quest 3 VR headset, bringing nearly real-time transcription of natural speech to the device ...