Releasing Vividh-ASR — an open benchmark and models for Hindi and Malayalam ASR.
Vividh-ASR is built from public data, stratified by complexity: → Clean recordings → Noisy and accented speech → Spontaneous, conversational audio
Alongside the benchmark, we release: → Open models for Hindi and Malayalam → A training recipe with two counterintuitive choices that moved the needle → What failed, not just what worked
The stratified evaluation methodology transfers directly to any low-resource language setup — beyond Hindi and Malayalam.
Built at @adalatai, where we build speech tech for Indian courts. This is our first open contribution back to the community. @janaab@Kush0610@orgh0