Georgian ASR (TSU)
Tbilisi State University Georgian speech recognition research.
Tbilisi State University Georgian speech recognition research.
Best for georgian-language transcription for journalism, archives, and accessibility projects. Pricing: free.
What it is
Georgian is another low-resource language with no major commercial STT vendor. Academic groups in Tbilisi have published Georgian-tuned ASR checkpoints (mostly Whisper and wav2vec2 fine-tunes) on Hugging Face. These are the practical baseline for any Georgian-language transcription project until commercial vendors emerge. Best fit when the buyer is georgian-language transcription for journalism, archives, and accessibility projects. The honest caveat: research-grade with limited maintenance. As with any open-weights release, the integrator owns hosting, scaling, and SLA — but the licensing cost is zero and the model can be fine-tuned on in-house audio.
Watch out for: Research-grade with limited maintenance.
Install / use
huggingface.co search 'georgian' for model cardsFeatures
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 1 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Georgian ASR (TSU) vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Georgian ASR (TSU) | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Open source | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | free | free beta |
| Speaker diarization | No | Yes |
| Word timestamps | No | Yes |
| Streaming | No | No |
| Languages | 1 | 99 |
| Platforms | Linux | Web, API, MCP |
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