Persian ASR Triple Threat 🔥 Benchmark

A same-test leaderboard for Persian speech recognition. Two real-world sets — VisualEars6669 (6,669-row / 10.49h noisy benchmark with clean, farfield & obstructed conditions) and FLEURS-fa Full (4,341-row public Persian FLEURS) — now scored three ways:

S³ is a Persian-first Deaf/hard-of-hearing-focused semantic metric: it weights every ASR error by how much that word matters for understanding, so dropping a keyword costs far more than a filler. 🔑 Ess Err is the error rate on only the most meaning-critical words (importance ≥ 0.8) — the words a DHH reader can least afford to lose. Avg Fair 🔥 = the Triple Threat, the mean of WER, CER and S³. Fair metrics ignore punctuation, spaces, half-spaces and diacritics, and normalize numbers (spelled-out ↔ digits) so a correctly-heard «صد» isn't penalized against «۱۰۰». Lower is better. 🔒 marks closed paid APIs. S³ is undergoing validation with Persian DHH annotators.