Takeaways:

1. We’re introducing Meta Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), a suite of models providing automatic speech recognition capabilities for more than 1,600 languages, achieving state-of-the-art quality at an unprecedented scale.
2. Omnilingual ASR was designed as a community-driven framework. People around the world can extend Omnilingual ASR to new languages by using just a few of their own samples.
3. We’re also releasing the Omnilingual ASR Corpus, an extensive collection of transcribed speech in 350 underserved languages; Omnilingual wav2vec 2.0, a scaled up massively multilingual speech representation model; and a language exploration demo people can explore languages covered by the model.