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The Open ASR Leaderboard has added a new model for Swahili, marking the first language from the Global South. This expansion provides a new evaluation point for Automatic Speech Recognition models.
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From Hugging Face blog - “The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language”
The Open ASR Leaderboard has been updated to include a model trained on Swahili. The model was developed by a team of researchers and engineers. The leaderboard provides a standardized method for evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition models. This expansion increases the diversity of languages represented on the leaderboard.
Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-asr-leaderboard-global-south
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