# TII — Falcon ASR > AI lab announcements, news reports and podcasts. forck.live follows what companies announce about their own products. Press may corroborate an official story; it never leads and never appears as an item of its own. A missing date stays missing. A title is the publisher's words — where a company does not publish in English, an English rendering is listed separately as `Title in English` and named as this site's translation, never as theirs. This file is the record of one model version: what the model registry states about it, TII's launch post, the first-party posts this record holds about it, the outlets that reported on those posts, and other companies' announcements that it runs on their platforms. A model ranks nothing here and nothing is composed: each date names whose it is, and a field nothing states is `not stated` rather than missing. - This model's page: https://forck.live/models/falcon-asr - TII's page: https://forck.live/company/tii - Every model: https://forck.live/models - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Model - Name: Falcon ASR - Company: TII (tii.ae) - Launch post: Introducing Falcon ASR — https://forck.live/items/16384-introducing-falcon-asr - Announced: 2026-10-07T13:21:03+00:00 - Launch source: https://huggingface.co/blog/tiiuae/falcon-asr - Launch chosen by: a person, pinned in the model registry - Released (per models.dev): 2026-10-07 - Listed (per OpenRouter): not stated - Open weights: not stated - Posts about it: 1 - Outlets named under its posts: 0 - Also written: Falcon-ASR ## Posts about it _TII's own posts whose title names Falcon ASR, and its launch post, in the record's order: dated newest first, undated last. The record reads the newest 50 first-party posts mentioning the model, every company's together, so a model mentioned more often than that lists the newest of them._ Every entry is one first-party announcement, and carries the same eight fields in this order before any others: Company · Announced · Category · Coverage · Announcement · Group · Source · Record `Source` is the company's own page the announcement was traced to and `Record` is this site's page for it. Both are safe to cite. `Coverage` is a number of outlets, or `not counted` — which means this record reached no count of its own, never that nobody wrote about it. `Category` is this tracker's own analysis, and is authoritative wherever it is stated. `not stated` means either that nothing has analysed the post yet or that the analysis placed it outside this taxonomy; neither is a verdict about the announcement. `Announcement` is whether the post is news of something the company did, rather than a how-to, a customer story, a changelog listing or a staffing note. `Group` is which of this record's groups the entry falls in, carried on the entry itself so it holds where the groups are headings and where they are not. One of: `models`, `covered`, `announcements`, `routine`. Anything after `Record` is held detail that only some announcements carry. ### TII — Introducing Falcon ASR - Company: TII (tii.ae) - 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 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. The model 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. On TII's internal Emirati evaluation, Falcon-ASR recorded 22.73% WER and 10.19% CER, the lowest among compared systems. The model is available via a Hugging Face demo, with API access and native applications planned. ## Who reported on it _This record names no outlet that reported on these posts._ --- Record: https://forck.live/models/falcon-asr Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt Current issue: https://forck.live/feed.md