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BuzzASR: A Swarm of 100+ Monolingual Speech Recognition Models

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

We introduce BuzzASR, a collection of language-specialized fine-tuned Whisper models adapted for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in 102 languages. Large end-to-end Transformer-based ASR models such as Whisper have revolutionized ASR, but most prominent models are highly multilingual. As a result, these models often perform poorly on languages less well-represented in their training set. While it has long been known that effective language adaptation can be achieved through simple fine-tuning on monolingual data, this strategy has only been applied to a small number of languages. We massivel

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