Ali Asif

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ASR: what I’ve logged

ASR comes up in 2 posts of my AI log, from October 2026 to November 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The sources come from Hugging Face and IBM, filed under frontier, agents and coding and science.

Items that mention ASR

  1. Hugging Face 5 Nov 2026

    Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard

    Two new private conversational splits from Liva AI, about 1.3 and 1.6 hours, plus an accent breakdown by Kachru's Three Circles in the Private tab.

    Primary source

  2. IBM 20 Oct 2026

    Granite Speech 5.0

    A 2B speech model at 5.06% average English WER on the Open ASR Leaderboard short-form sets, a multilingual 470M model at 19,870 RTFx, and a diarization update, all Apache 2.0.

    Primary source

Posts that cover ASR

November 20261 entry

  1. 6 Nov 2026Inkling 2 Small, Mistral Studio, DSX OS, a hypertension watch studyFrontier · Agents and coding · Science

October 20261 entry

  1. 21 Oct 2026Claude Duet, Granite Speech 5, Kumo Relational, attack surfaceFrontier · Agents and coding · Open weights · Science