AI RESEARCH
Polyglot-Lion: Efficient Multilingual ASR for Singapore via Balanced Fine-Tuning of Qwen3-ASR
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2603.16184v1 Announce Type: new We present Polyglot-Lion, a family of compact multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) models tailored for the linguistic landscape of Singapore, covering English, Mandarin, Tamil, and Malay. Our models are obtained by fine-tuning Qwen3-ASR-0.6B and Qwen3-ASR-1.7B exclusively on publicly available speech corpora, using a balanced sampling strategy that equalizes the number of