Meta on Monday, November 10, unveiled a suite of open-weight AI models with automatic speech recognition (ASR) capabilities that support more than 1,600 languages worldwide, including 500 “low-resource languages” that have been transcribed using artificial intelligence (AI) for the first time.

The Omnilingual ASR models have been developed by Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team. The social media giant has also introduced an open-weight, multilingual speech representation model known as Omnilingual wav2vec 2.0 that can be scaled up to seven billion parameters, enabling developers to build a wide range of AI-driven speech applications.

The Indian languages supported by Meta’s ASR models include Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Tulu, Telugu, Odia, Punjabi, Marwari, Urdu etc. Notably, the m

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