Meta AI Transcribes 500 Niche Languages for the First Time, Admits It’s Not Perfect

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Meta’s newly formed Superintelligence Labs has debuted a suite of AI-powered transcription models, which it says is the first to transcribe 500 “low-resourced” languages.

An open-source transcription tool, dubbed Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), is now available on Hugging Face. Meta says it can recognize over 1,600 languages, including Hwana (Nigeria), Rotokas (Papua New Guinea), and…