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sw_whisper_nonstandard_small
Veronica1NW/sw_whisper_nonstandard_small
sw_whisper_nonstandard_small is a automatic speech recognition model from Veronica1NW. Use it when you need speech turned into text. The card lists the license as apache-2.0.
Languages: Swahili (sw) — Non-standard / accented varieties from Kenyan speakers
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At a glance
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- License
- apache-2.0
- Model type
- whisper
- Access
- Public
- Created
- Oct 27, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 27, 2025
- SHA
- 9d5a0ce6
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Model card
From the Hugging Face model README
Languages: Swahili (sw) — Non-standard / accented varieties from Kenyan speakers
This model was fine-tuned on non-standard and accented Swahili speech using Common Voice and additional curated speech data from Kenyan speakers. The goal was to improve ASR performance on regional Swahili accents and non-standard pronunciations.
Fine-tuning data: Subset of Mozilla Common Voice + curated non-standard Swahili speech
📊 Evaluation
| Metric | Pre-train | Test |
|---|---|---|
| WER | 0.3737 | 0.3123 |
| CER | 0.1566 | 0.1317 |
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Type
- whisper
- License
- apache-2.0
- Languages
- sw
- Created
- Oct 27, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 27, 2025