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The MMS authors say current speech technology is limited to about one hundred languages, a small fraction of the over 7,000 languages spoken in the world.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“current speech technology is restricted to about one hundred languages which is a small fraction of the over 7,000 languages spoken around the world”
Scaling Speech Technology to 1,000+ Languages, Vineel Pratap et al., Meta AI (arXiv), 2023, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.48550/arXiv.2305.13516)- What it measures
- This is the framing the authors give in 2023 for why they built a 1,000-language system.
- What it does not show
- A broad characterization written in 2023, not a count of any one product.