Open ASR Leaderboard

by HuggingFace

HuggingFace ASR leaderboard — public WER + RTFx across 8 English test sets.

TL;DR

HuggingFace ASR leaderboard — public WER + RTFx across 8 English test sets.

Best for tracking SOTA English ASR (WER + RTFx) on 8 public test sets simultaneously. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
—
Last push
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Pricing
free
Platforms
HuggingFace

What it is

The Open ASR Leaderboard scores submitted models on 8 public English test sets — the standard SOTA tracker. Whisper, Conformer, Canary, NeMo Parakeet ranked side-by-side. License: Apache-2.0.

Best for: Tracking SOTA English ASR (WER + RTFx) on 8 public test sets simultaneously.
Watch out for: English-only · 8 test sets (LibriSpeech / SPGISpeech / TED-LIUM / Voxpopuli / Common Voice / Earnings22 / AMI / GigaSpeech). License: Apache-2.0 toolkit.

Install / use

https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported1
HIPAA eligibleNo

Open ASR Leaderboard vs Whipscribe

FeatureOpen ASR LeaderboardWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages199
PlatformsHuggingFaceWeb, API, MCP

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