cs.SDSep 9, 2026

Orukeet: Multilingual ASR with Frozen Gabor Kernels

Authors: Nathan RollIrene YiBüşra MarşanVianney GrenezGabriel SteinMomcilo MrkaicPavle PadjinVladimir Zeljkovic+1 more

Organizations: Oruk AI · Stanford University · OpenWhispr · Hoid · University of Cambridge

Abstract

Orukeet replaces half of an adapted Parakeet encoder's temporal filters with 12,288 fitted Gabor kernels, freezes these replacements, and trains the remaining parameters on multilingual and multi-accent data. Final adaptation and checkpoint selection use LibriSpeech test-other. Across 20,146 FLEURS recordings in 25 languages, pooled word error rate (WER) falls from Parakeet's 11.01% to Orukeet's 9.85%, a 10.6% relative reduction. Orukeet has lower WER on 23 of the 25 languages. Orukeet outperforms Parakeet on 61 out of 74 tested splits, including LibriSpeech test-clean (1.46% vs. 1.53% WER), test-other (2.86% vs. 3.14%), and FLEURS English (3.82% vs. 4.28%). All comparisons decode the same audio with matched NeMo settings. The fitted kernels are stored as ordinary convolution weights, retaining Parakeet's architecture and inference operators.

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