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Open ASR Leaderboard adds Monsoon, its first benchmark set for Global South languages

The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language

What happened

Voice Arena and Hugging Face have added Monsoon en-IN and Monsoon hi-IN to the Open ASR Leaderboard, making Hindi the first Indian language represented on the multilingual leaderboard.

Why it matters

The Open ASR Leaderboard has added its first Hindi and Indian English benchmarks, showing how speaker attributes are being incorporated into public evaluations.

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