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Filipino-accented English. One public benchmark. Leading ASR systems: 10.8% to 44.7% word error rate.
Same accent, same test.
Choose your model on the accents your users have. What we heard at Interspeech 2026: silencio.network/updates
Before you trust a headline word error rate, ask two questions.
Who was speaking?
Were they reading?
Then build a test set that sounds like your users. silencio.network/updates
Today is Uzbek Language Day.
33 million speakers across Central Asia. Barely represented in public speech data.
If you speak Uzbek, yours is one of the voices AI has hardly heard. Record a clip. Change that.
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Who recorded our Kenyan Swahili sample?
103 speakers, one clip each. 66 from Nairobi, where Sheng runs through everyday Swahili. 26 from Mombasa, on the coast.
Unscripted answers, recorded on their own devices, every clip human-transcribed.
huggingface.co/datasets/Sile…
Myth: AI understands every language.
Around 7,000 languages exist. Strong speech models handle a small fraction of them at production quality.
The gap is not technology. It is whether anyone recorded the language in the first place.
Every clip in our catalogue is recorded by a real person in their own environment: homes, streets and workplaces from Lagos to the Visayas to Addis Ababa.
That is the acoustic world voice AI is deployed into.
It is rarely the one it is tested on.
Code-switching is where voice assistants break.
Hindi to English and back, mid-sentence. People do it without noticing. Models trained on one language at a time notice every time.
It is almost never read aloud, so it has to be recorded the way people talk. We collect it to spec.
Our speech data is recorded by ~2.5M contributors across ~180 countries, on their own phones, where they live and work.
Each one is paid per recording, with a consent record for every speaker.
That is why the accents in it are the accents real users have.
English is not one accent.
Our Accents of English sample on Hugging Face: 282 speakers born in 35 countries, 513 clips, 9.3 hours. Every clip labelled with country of birth, first language and accent.
Behind it: more than 100,000 hours off the shelf.
huggingface.co/datasets/Sile…
Dear Silencians, please help us with our Wolof data collection and tag any crypto X communities from Senegal! @silencioNetwork
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(Same Procedure as every month)
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Final day, Interspeech 2026.
The data we brought here belongs to you. Every recording, every language, every voice on this network.
Thank you for making this possible. Looking forward to what we build together next.
Today is Indigenous Voices Day at Interspeech 2026.
Every recording of an Indigenous, niche, or low-resource language in this network is why this day matters. Silencio is Full-Day Sponsor.
Thank you to every contributor keeping their language alive.