The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language

The Open ASR Leaderboard adds two new evaluation sets, Monsoon en-IN and Monsoon hi-IN, for Hindi and Indian English, to address bias and improve representation of Global South languages and diverse speaker demographics.

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To address this gap, we introduce two evaluation sets to the Open ASR Leaderboard: Monsoon en-IN and Monsoon hi-IN . Hindi, spoken by more than half a billion people , is the first Indic language on a multilingual tab that currently covers only European languages.
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Announced: 28 Aug 2026 00:00 UTC
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