# 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

1. **Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard** (Hugging Face, 5 Nov 2026): 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](https://huggingface.co/blog/open-asr-leaderboard-liva) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-11-06-inkling-2-small-mistral-studio-dsx-os-watch-hypertension#item-5)
2. **Granite Speech 5.0** (IBM, 20 Oct 2026): 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](https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-21-claude-duet-granite-speech-5-kumo-attack-surface#item-2)

## Posts

- 2026-11-06 [Inkling 2 Small, Mistral Studio, DSX OS, a hypertension watch study](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-11-06-inkling-2-small-mistral-studio-dsx-os-watch-hypertension)
- 2026-10-21 [Claude Duet, Granite Speech 5, Kumo Relational, attack surface](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-21-claude-duet-granite-speech-5-kumo-attack-surface)

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