# Hugging Face — The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2026-08-28T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-asr-leaderboard-global-south
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4657-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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/open-asr-leaderboard-global-south:

> 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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