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ElizabethMwangi/whisper-large-v3-luganda-waxal-1
whisper-large-v3-luganda-waxal-1 is a automatic speech recognition model from ElizabethMwangi. Use it when you need speech turned into text. The card lists the license as apache-2.0.
Stage 1 fine-tune of openai/whisper-large-v3 on the WaxalNLP Luganda standard speech dataset. This is the original Stage 1 checkpoint without SpecAugment, used as the base for early Stage 2 runs (v16, v17, v20).
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At a glance
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- License
- apache-2.0
- Model type
- whisper
- Access
- Public
- Created
- May 9, 2026
- Updated
- May 9, 2026
- SHA
- e3fa928b
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From the Hugging Face model README
Whisper Large V3 — Luganda Stage 1 (Waxal, no SpecAugment)
Stage 1 fine-tune of openai/whisper-large-v3 on the WaxalNLP Luganda standard speech dataset. This is the original Stage 1 checkpoint without SpecAugment, used as the base for early Stage 2 runs (v16, v17, v20).
Training Details
- Dataset: google/WaxalNLP (lug_asr split)
- Language token: sw (Swahili used as proxy for Luganda)
- Full model training: encoder, decoder, and projection updated
- SpecAugment: Off
- Output dir: lg_waxal_tune_large_1
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Type
- whisper
- License
- apache-2.0
- Languages
- lg
- Created
- May 9, 2026
- Updated
- May 9, 2026