I don't know. What about words inherited from other languages? I think a cross-language model could improve lots of things.

For example, "here it is, voila!" "turn left on el camino real"

I think this model proves it's very efficient and accurate.

honestly the inability to correctly transcribe the 4 language mix i use in my everyday life is one of the major blockers for adopting ASR tech in my own tooling. this coming from someone who literally works in that field.

turns out, outside the US, many people speak more than one language. :)

edit: I should say was a major blocker, because the last iterations of open-weight models actually work better and better. it's often the UX that's not thought for these usecases.

It doesn't make sense to have a language-restricted transcription model because of code switching. People aren't machines, we don't stick to our native languages without failure. Even monolingual people move in and out of their native language when using "borrowed" words/phrases. A single-language model will often fail to deal with that.

STT services that have been around for longer, like Azure, Google and Amazon, generally require you to request a specific language, and their quality is a lot higher than models that advertise themselves as LLMs (even though I believe the clouds are also using the same types of models now).

The hilarious part of this comment is all the comments around it complaining about not supporting enough languages

Imagine if ChatGPT started like this and thought they should trim coding abilities from their language model because most people don't code.

A single language modèle wouldn't make any sense except for English: there's simply too much English intertwined with any other language nowadays (corporate jargon, brands, tech, etc.)

"I only speak one language, so models I use should only understand one".

uhhh i cast doubt on multi-language support as affecting latency. model size, maybe, but what is the mechanism for making latency worse? i think of model latency as O(log(model size))… but i am open to being wrong / that being a not-good mental model / educated guess.