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

Facebook parent Meta has announced a major upgrade to its AI efforts with the release of Omnilingual ASR, a new open-source automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. The company claims that this system can understand and transcribe over 1,600 spoken languages, including approximately 500 low-resource languages that have never received dedicated support from AI-based transcription tools.