>I know Common Voice has come and gone

From https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en: Today's Progress- 22/2400, help us get to our goal!

Ouch. I remember contributing to it for a while, quite some time ago. Did it just not pan out to be as useful as expected?

weird; there are more hours of Catalan than any language other than English...

It’s due to politics, there was a campaign tied with nationalistic sentiment that leveraged soccer fans for it.

Whisper is the best out there right now: https://openai.com/research/whisper

The best out there open source

It is better than any commercially available offering too.

Not really, just look at https://sites.research.google/usm/

Or this: https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/conformer-1/

Thanks!