listen-windy-lingua-ja-ct2

WindyWord.ai STT — Japanese Lingua (CPU INT8 (CTranslate2))

Part of the Windstorm Labs open model catalogue. Scores, licence and attribution for every model: https://windytranslate.com/models/listen-windy-lingua-ja-ct2

Transcribes Japanese speech (Japonic).

Note: Quality note: based on whisper-base-japanese (74M params). Small model for a top-10 language; production users may prefer the multilingual openai/whisper-large-v3 for higher accuracy.

Quality

• WER: not yet measured by us. Imported from an upstream community fine-tune.

About this variant

This is the ct2-int8 deployment format of our Japanese Lingua STT model. Load it via the ct2-int8/ subfolder.

Part of the WindyWord.ai STT fleet — covering 35+ languages that commercial speech-to-text APIs underserve, with proper dialect / script disclosures where they matter.

Usage

from transformers import WhisperForConditionalGeneration, WhisperProcessor
processor = WhisperProcessor.from_pretrained("WindstormLabs/listen-windy-lingua-ja-ct2", subfolder="ct2-int8")
model = WhisperForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("WindstormLabs/listen-windy-lingua-ja-ct2", subfolder="ct2-int8")

Apps

The Windy Word apps are built on this model family.

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Provenance & License

CTranslate2 INT8 conversion of WindstormLabs/listen-windy-lingua-ja, whose weights derive from Ivydata/whisper-base-japanese (community fine-tune by Ivydata). Lineage inferred: same port batch, INT8 size matches the safetensors build of this language. Licensed Apache-2.0 upstream; this redistribution is released under the same licence.