"Advancements in AI Speech Recognition and Language Models"

Meta has developed an open-source AI language model called Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) that can recognize over 4,000 spoken languages and produce speech in over 1,100. MMS was trained on audio recordings of translated religious texts, which increased the model's available languages. Meta hopes that MMS will help preserve language diversity and encourage researchers to build on its foundation. The company cautions that the models aren't perfect and collaboration across the AI community is critical to the responsible development of AI technologies.