Hugging Face has published an update indicating that regional varieties of English are entering its speech recognition rankings. Specifically, "Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard" as new entries for automated speech evaluation. This development extends the scope of the benchmark to include speech data from both Egyptian and Nigerian English.
The integration establishes tracking for these two distinct regional varieties on the evaluation platform. By listing both varieties, the leaderboard reflects speech processing evaluation for speakers of Egyptian and Nigerian English. The announcement was recorded via the platform's official blog.