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Orukeet: Multilingual ASR with Frozen Gabor Kernels

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 9, 2026 · UTC

Orukeet replaces half of an adapted Parakeet encoder's temporal filters with 12,288 fitted Gabor kernels, freezes these replacements, and trains the remaining parameters on multilingual and multi-accent data. Final adaptation and checkpoint selection use LibriSpeech test-other. Across 20,146 FLEURS recordings in 25 languages, pooled word error rate (WER) falls from Parakeet's 11.01% to Orukeet's 9.85%, a 10.6% relative reduction. Orukeet has lower WER on 23 of the 25 languages. Orukeet outperforms Parakeet on 61 out of 74 tested splits, including LibriSpeech test-clean (1.46% vs. 1.53% WER), t

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