Open multilingual ASR dark horse: Hojo-ASR-Multi-V1 hits 3.54% WER, ranks #7 globally
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-04
HojoAI's Hojo-ASR-Multi-V1 debuts at #7 globally and #1 among open multilingual models on the Open ASR Leaderboard, with an average WER of 3.54% across five languages, rivaling leading proprietary speech recognition systems. Rohan Paul frames it through an AI-hardware lens: smartphones' biggest limitation is demanding attention, and specialized devices that minimize interaction for one job are newly economically viable.
- Open weights, public eval files, reproducible results
- Supports major languages including German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Korean and Russian
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