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This breakdown captures how rapidly ASR is evolving, especially the clear divide between LLM-enhanced accuracy and the blazing throughput of CTC/TDT systems. The post also highlights the ongoing tradeoff between multilingual coverage and single-language specialization, which is crucial for real-world deployment scenarios like Fastest Trains or long-form transcription workflows. With the Open ASR Leaderboard adding multilingual and long-audio tracks, it’s becoming one of the most reliable ways to gauge practical ASR performance today.