# The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language

DevFeed: [The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-open-asr-leaderboard-adds-its-first-global-south-language-7411.md>)

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

Author: Eric Bezzam; Shobhit Banga; Manas Dhir; Bhaskar Singh; Manmeet Kaur; Aaditya Pareek; Walecha; Sagar Jain; Hanuman Sidh; Vanshika Chhabra

Published: 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

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>), [Human-AI evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/human-ai-evaluation.md>)

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## AI overview

The Open ASR Leaderboard introduces Monsoon evaluation sets for Hindi in India, expanding coverage beyond European languages and testing how recognition performance varies across populations and conditions. The sets use public and private splits, speaker-disjoint data, detailed speaker attributes, and variation in geography, age, gender, vocabulary, devices, acoustic environments, speech type, speech rate, and transcript validity.

## Source excerpt

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