congrats, this is a very exciting release.

I cannot speak to the other accents, but my experience has been that American south accents are really poorly represented in mainstream Speach-To-Text models. If your STT model is pointed at end users, this can cause quite a quality drift when looking at eval vs prod performance depending on who your user base is.

I am not sure what terms you have collected the speach data on, but I am sure there are lots of people working with voice models that would be very interested in this as an eval set.

thank you.. and agreed - that's why we decided to work on this because the tech is fascinating, but the representation is far behind. We have commercial rights for the data - that allowed us to create eval datasets but also build models.