Meta’s 1,600-Language ASR Joins 2026 Best Inventions List

Meta’s Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) was named to a 2026 Best Inventions list on Oct. 15, drawing attention to a speech-to-text system designed to serve languages often unsupported by current recognition tools. Of the 1,600-plus languages supported, 500 are low-resource languages with no prior AI transcription. More than 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, and most lack support in existing speech-recognition systems. Released Nov. 10, 2025, the suite includes models ranging from 300 million to 7 billion parameters. Its largest model had character error rates below 10% for 78% of supported languages. The accompanying corpus contains transcribed speech in 350 underserved languages. The code and models use the Apache 2.0 license, while the speech corpus uses a CC-BY license.

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