Voice Arena launches two-person speech recognition test set and leaderboardMachine translation

Speech recognition evalualtion must test where voice agents actually work, which is phone calls between two people. Voice Arena’s new benchmark tests speech-to-text models on real calls made on everyday phones, in real rooms, with real background sound. Two speakers make the job much harder for the model. People talk over each other, interrupt, drop in short “yeah” and “okay” replies, and the phone line compresses the audio. A support or sales agent deals with all of this every day.

Drop 3/15: Introducing the Speech Recognition Benchmark on @voicearena_ai. One benchmark for every use case of speech recognition, in every language. Tested on real conversations. Dataset 1 is live: the Monsoon Conversational ASR Test Set, two-person conversations in 5 languages. Leaderboard and public test sets at Voice Arena.