Fact · Speech recognition
Appen provides a suite of new, private English-language audio datasets for the Open ASR Leaderboard.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“To address this, Appen provides a suite of new, private English-language audio datasets”
Appen Provides Private, High-Quality Audio Data to Hugging Face's Open ASR Leaderboard, Appen, Appen (press release), 2026, Press release, paragraph 2.
Open the original- What it measures
- The private sets are added to the leaderboard as a separate test that the public audio cannot leak into.
- What it does not show
- Scores on private sets are not public, so readers cannot check them directly. The release is the vendor's own announcement.