listen-windy-lingua-ig

WindyWord.ai STT — Igbo Lingua (GPU (safetensors))

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

Transcribes Igbo speech (Niger-Congo > Volta-Niger).

Note: Quality caveat: model is whisper-tiny-igbo (39M params, 4 layers); audited at 157% WER. Limited capacity at this parameter size; for production use we recommend an openai/whisper-large-v3 multilingual fallback.

Quality

• FLEURS WER: 157.4% (50-sample audit)
• CER: 1.5418
• Band: unusable-gap
• Source: our 50-sample FLEURS screening (not a publication result)

About this variant

This is the safetensors deployment format of our Igbo Lingua STT model. Load it via the safetensors/ 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("WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-ig", subfolder="safetensors")
model = WhisperForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-ig", subfolder="safetensors")

Apps

The Windy Word apps are built on this model family.

---

Provenance & License

Weights derived from benjaminogbonna/whisper-tiny-igbo (community fine-tune by benjaminogbonna; identified from this repository's commit history and config.json). Licensed Apache-2.0 upstream; this redistribution is released under the same licence.