# Abu Dhabi institute launches Emirati Arabic, speech and OCR AI models

> The Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi introduced Falcon-Emirati for the local dialect, Falcon-ASR for multilingual speech transcription and Falcon-OCR-Arabic for extracting Arabic text and structure from documents.

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- Published: 2026-10-10T16:36:58+00:00
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The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research arm of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council, announced three artificial intelligence models on October 6. Falcon-Emirati, with 7 billion parameters, was built to handle the vocabulary, expressions and cultural context of Emirati Arabic. TII said it scored 84.83 percent on Alyah, a benchmark for native Emirati Arabic.

The other releases target different tasks. Falcon-ASR, a 1.6-billion-parameter model, transcribes spoken Emirati and Standard Arabic as well as English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Falcon-OCR-Arabic extracts Arabic text and structured content, including tables and mathematical formulas, from images and documents. TII listed these as potential uses and did not publish an independent product evaluation.

## Data

### Launch of Falcon-Emirati, Falcon-ASR and Falcon-OCR-Arabic

On October 6, TII announced three models for Emirati Arabic, multilingual speech recognition and Arabic text extraction from images.

Methodology: The event date is from TII's primary announcement issued that day. The 84.83 percent Alyah score and model sizes are TII-reported claims, not independently measured by Newsverum. Alyah assesses native Emirati Arabic, including everyday language, figurative expressions, heritage and poetry.

| label | value | unit | period | basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source-reported score on the Alyah benchmark | 84.83 | percent | 2026-10-06 | observed |

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## Sources

- [Technology Innovation Institute](<https://falconllm.tii.ae/tii-launches-falcon-emirati-alongside-new-arabic-ai-models-for-speech-and-visual-text-understanding.html>) (Source checked: 2026-10-10; Published: 2026-10-06)

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