• Appen entered collaboration with Hugging Face to add private, high-quality English-language audio datasets to Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard, tightening evaluation of speech recognition models.
• Partnership targets “benchmaxxing” risk by keeping test data private, aiming to make word error rate rankings harder to game.
• New evaluation track expands coverage across scripted speech, conversational audio, US-accented speech, non-US accents, surfacing performance gaps under more real-world conditions.
• Open ASR Leaderboard has logged more than 700,000 visits since September 2023, positioning it as a widely used benchmark for ASR model selection.

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