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The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language

The Open ASR Leaderboard now includes its first Global South language, expanding speech benchmark coverage. This update brings automatic speech recognition evaluation to a historically underrepresented language, helping developers assess model performance beyond dominant-world datasets. It signals growing attention to regional language support in voice AI.

Hugging Face·Aug 28, 2026

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