Introducing Falcon ASR

What happened

Developed at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, it also provides support for English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Try Falcon ASR → Recognising spoken Arabic Arabic speech varies by region, speaker and setting.

A model that handles a formal news broadcast may still struggle with a conversation in Emirati or with speech recorded over a phone line. Dialectal Arabic also has fewer transcribed resources than Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), which makes training and evaluation harder.

Arabic benchmark results The Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard , maintained by the ELM Research Center, ranks systems by the equal-weight average WER across six test sets. It also reports character error rate (CER).

Lower values are better for both metrics. Competitor figures are the published leaderboard averages checked on 30 September 2026. Evaluating Emirati speech Public evaluation data already contains Emirati: Casablanca has a UAE subset.

Key facts

• Developed at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, it also — support: English, French, Spanish and Portuguese
• Evaluating Emirati speech Public evaluation data already — includes: Emirati: Casablanca has a UAE subset