Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard drops LibriSpeech from default average WER ranking
rdesh26 · x · 2026-11-04
Eric Bezzam, maintainer of the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard, announced that LibriSpeech is being phased out: it no longer counts toward the default average WER used to rank ASR models.
- The team called the change "maybe long overdue" and thanked the LibriSpeech team for setting a standard for benchmarking and dataset preparation in the speech community
- The announcement comes with a Toy Story farewell meme featuring LibriSpeech alongside other legacy speech benchmarks like TIMIT, WSJ, Switchboard and TED-LIUM
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