TTS Arena: Benchmarking Text-to-Speech Models in the Wild
Hugging Face introduces TTS Arena, a community-driven evaluation platform for text-to-speech models modeled after the LLM Chatbot Arena approach. Users listen to audio samples from competing TTS systems and vote on quality, generating Elo-based rankings. The platform aims to provide a more ecologically valid benchmark than existing automated metrics, which often fail to capture human perceptual preferences. Initial results surface rankings across open and proprietary TTS models.
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Open ASR Leaderboard: Trends and Insights with New Multilingual & Long-Form Tracks
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