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whisper-small-shona-v3-a
Code-Dev/whisper-small-shona-v3-a
whisper-small-shona-v3-a is a automatic speech recognition model from Code-Dev. Use it when you need speech turned into text. It is set up for transformers.
This repository hosts a completely standalone, fully compiled model optimized natively for the Shona language (sn-ZW). It forms the core Speech-to-Text foundation for Verdi AI OS—an agricultural operating system built…
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At a glance
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Library
- transformers
- Model type
- whisper
- Access
- Public
- Created
- Aug 11, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 11, 2026
- SHA
- 8dfa7856
Model card
From the Hugging Face model README
🌾 Verdi AI OS: Whisper Small Shona ASR (Stage 1c Completed)
This repository hosts a completely standalone, fully compiled model optimized natively for the Shona language (sn-ZW). It forms the core Speech-to-Text foundation for Verdi AI OS—an agricultural operating system built for logistics metrics automation and voice marketplace tracking.
📊 Training Progression Metrics
- Stage 1a (FLEURS Baseline): Dropped baseline WER to 37.15%
- Stage 1b (Bible Chunk 1): Dropped WER to 29.39%
- Stage 1c (Bible Chunk 2 - 6,000 Rows): Finished at 26.42% WER with an un-normalized training loss of 0.079
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Library
- transformers
- Type
- whisper
- Languages
- sn
- Created
- Aug 11, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 11, 2026