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Sarvam's Saaras V4: 22 Indian Languages, One Model
Sarvam AI releases Saaras V4, a speech-to-text model for all 22 Indian languages and global English.
#Sarvam AI#Speech Recognition#Indic Languages#ASR#Saaras V4
š„ What happened
Sarvam AI dropped Saaras V4, a speech recognition model covering all 22 scheduled Indian languages plus English. It's available today via Sarvam's API (model="saaras:v4"), but the weights are not public.
š” Why it matters
A 3B-parameter hybrid state-space decoder reportedly achieves the lowest average WER among benchmarked models. On noisy audio, its error rate is claimed to be under half that of Deepgram Nova-3 and GPT-4o Transcribe. Pricing: ā¹30 per hour.
ā” Our take
Vendor-reported numbers without independent reproduction deserve skepticism. But covering 22 Indian languages in one model is a strong signal ā especially for the Indian market.
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