The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language

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Back to Articles a]:hidden"> The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language Published August 28, 2026 Update on GitHub Upvote 3 Eric Bezzam bezzam Follow Shobhit Banga Shobhitbanga Follow VoiceArena Manas Dhir manasdhir04 Follow VoiceArena Bhaskar Singh bhaskarJT Follow VoiceArena Manmeet Kaur manmeet-voicearena Follow VoiceArena Aaditya Pareek pareek-voicearena Follow VoiceArena Walecha Amritansh8675 Follow VoiceArena Sagar Jain sagarjain268380 Follow VoiceArena Hanuman Sidh hanuman44420 Follow VoiceArena Vanshika Chhabra vanshikachhabra-voicearena Follow VoiceArena:last-child]:mb-0"> Voice Arena and Hugging Face partner to launch open ASR evaluation for Hindi and Indian English Benchmarks decide what gets built. A model that scores well on the Open ASR Leaderboard gets adopted and iterated on, while capabilities the leaderboard does not measure tend not to improve. Much of the recent work on the leaderboard has gone into making the evaluation metrics more trustworthy: Held-out private splits. Benchmark-fitting analysis to quantify how much models are reproducing reference transcripts rather than transcribing solely on the audio.