Testing the Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) Model that Supports 1162 Languages

Explore the cutting-edge multilingual features of Meta’s latest automatic speech recognition (ASR) model

Luís Roque
Towards Data Science
8 min readMay 26, 2023

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Introduction

Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS)¹ is the latest release by Meta AI (just a few days ago). It pushes the boundaries of speech technology by expanding its reach from about 100 languages to over 1,000. This was achieved by building a single multilingual speech recognition…

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