Open ASR Leaderboard adds Egyptian and Nigerian English accent data
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Hugging Face has partnered with Liva AI to add private evaluation data for two English accents, Egyptian and Nigerian, to the Open ASR Leaderboard. The audio durations are 1.34 hours and 1.55 hours respectively, and the content consists of spontaneous conversational speech with punctuation, casing, and disfluencies. The leaderboard will provide finer accent breakdowns based on the Kachru three circles model: US vs. non-US, as well as Inner Circle (US, UK, Australia, Canada) vs. Outer Circle and Expanding Circle (India, Nigeria, Egypt).
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The Open ASR Leaderboard added two private conversational splits from Liva AI covering Egyptian English (1.34 h) and Nigerian English (1.55 h), both punctuated, cased and containing disfluencies. The leaderboard now reports a richer accent breakdown based on Kachru's Three Circles, comparing US vs. non-US and Inner Circle vs. Outer and Expanding Circles. The post says the additions continue efforts to improve accent and language representation and trust through new private data and providers.
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