Bengali ASR WER drops 85% to 7.65% with one fine-tune; 80 labs seek Monsoon license
omarsar0 · x · 2026-10-09
Voice Arena's Bengali ASR corpus Monsoon drew 80+ licensing requests within a week of its Interspeech launch. Its rule: only build datasets that promise results — fine-tuning Whisper Medium on Monsoon cut Bengali FLEURS word error rate from 85.27% to 7.65%, and prospects can verify via their model API on internal benchmarks.
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