# Hugging Face — Introducing Falcon ASR

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2026-10-07T13:21:03+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/tiiuae/falcon-asr
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16384-introducing-falcon-asr
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: Falcon-ASR

Hugging Face and TII introduced Falcon-ASR, a 1.6 billion parameter speech recognition model for Arabic with a focus on the Emirati dialect, also supporting English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. In evaluations, it achieved an average word error rate of 20.92% across six Arabic test sets, outperforming the best published result of 23.17% in the leaderboard snapshot used. The model supports word-level timestamps and is available via a Hugging Face demo, with API access and native applications planned.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/tiiuae/falcon-asr:

> In our evaluation, Falcon-ASR achieved an average word error rate of 20.92% across six Arabic test sets, compared with the best published result of 23.17% in the leaderboard snapshot we used.

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