# Adding Benchmaxxer Repellant to the Open ASR Leaderboard

DevFeed: [Adding Benchmaxxer Repellant to the Open ASR Leaderboard](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/adding-benchmaxxer-repellant-to-the-open-asr-leaderboard-7413.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/open-asr-leaderboard-private-data>)

Author: Eric Bezzam; Steven Zheng; Eustache Le Bihan; Sergio Bruccoleri; Jeanine Sinanan-Singh; Casey Ford; Guanbo Wang; Yukai Huang; Ke Li; Yufeng Hao

Published: 2026-05-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [asr](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/asr.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmarking.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Whisper](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/whisper.md>)

Tags: [asr](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/asr.md>), [audio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audio.md>), [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarking.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evaluation.md>), [leaderboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leaderboard.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [partnerships](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/partnerships.md>), [speech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speech.md>), [transcripts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transcripts.md>), [whisper](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/whisper.md>)

## AI overview

The article announces private English ASR datasets from Appen and DataoceanAI for the Open ASR Leaderboard. Keeping the datasets private is intended to reduce benchmark-specific optimization and test-set contamination while preserving a high-quality evaluation of multiple speech-recognition tasks.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.