Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
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.
đź”— Learn more: 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 new languages with just a few audio samples.
- A full suite of open source models and a dataset, including Omnilingual w2v 2.0, a 7B-parameter multilingual speech representation model, and Omnilingual ASR Corpus, a unique dataset spanning 350 underserved 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.
đź”— Learn more: 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 new languages with just a few audio samples.
- A full suite of open source models and a dataset, including Omnilingual w2v 2.0, a 7B-parameter multilingual speech representation model, and Omnilingual ASR Corpus, a unique dataset spanning 350 underserved languages.
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Learn more about our work: ai.meta.com
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Connect with us on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/showcase/aiatmeta
Meta focuses on bringing the world together by advancing AI, powering meaningful and safe experiences, and conducting open research.
