Hugging Face adds Hindi, Indian English to ASR leaderboard based on spontaneous speech
aftahi_ai · x · 2026-08-29
Hugging Face partnered with Voice Arena to add Hindi and Indian English to the Open ASR Leaderboard using the Monsoon dataset.
Key Points:
- Introduces Monsoon hi and Monsoon en-IN datasets, each with a public split for self-scoring and a private held-out split.
- Models are evaluated on spontaneous conversation rather than clean read prompts, reflecting how people actually speak.
- This addresses the benchmark gap for languages and accents, ensuring performance gaps in real-world conditions are visible.
Related event: Hugging Face Adds Hindi Speech Benchmarks to Open ASR Leaderboard(3 posts)→
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