Meta returns to open source AI with Omnilingual ASR models that can transcribe 1,600+ languages natively

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing ...

aiOla unveils Drax, an open-source speech model with state-of-the-art accuracy and up to 5× faster than models from direct competitors

PRNewswire/ -- aiOla, a voice-AI lab advancing speech recognition technology, is announcing today Drax, an open-source AI model that brings flow-matching-based generative methods to speech. By ...

Meta Expands AI Speech Recognition to 1,600+ Languages

Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition can transcribe speech in over 1,600 languages — including 500 low-resource languages ...
The Financial Express

Meta’s Alexandr Wang unveils new open-source AI model that understands over 1,600 languages

The Omnilingual ASR system addresses a long-standing issue in the AI industry where most speech recognition platforms focus ...
VentureBeat

aiOla drops ultra-fast ‘multi-head’ speech recognition model, beats OpenAI Whisper

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Today, Israeli AI startup aiOla announced ...

Drax model from aiOla makes AI speech recognition viable and reliable in noisy environments

With Drax, aiOla says, it has come up with a novel technique for training speech recognition systems that’s finally able to ...
Techzine Europe

AI speech model aiOla Drax outpaces OpenAI & Alibaba

Voice-AI may not be a defined sub-genre of automation intelligence yet, but aiOla would like it to be; the company runs a ...
Slator

What is Meta’s Omnilingual ASR?

On November 10, 2025, Meta AI unveiled Omnilingual ASR, a new suite of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that can ...

Meta’s new speech-to-text AI models cover 1,600 languages, including rare Indian dialects

Meta’s launch comes as Indian AI startups race to build Indic language models, bolstered by government-backed initiatives ...
WTOP News

Speech recognition programs don’t get everything right, especially if you’re Black

Every time you say something to Alexa or Siri, or use voice to text to send a text message, you’re using artificial intelligence. While those programs can be pretty accurate, there’s plenty of times ...