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emason/whisper-base-sw
whisper-base-sw is a automatic speech recognition model from emason. Use it when you need speech turned into text. It is set up for transformers. The card lists the license as apache-2.0.
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At a glance
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Library
- transformers
- License
- apache-2.0
- Model type
- whisper
- Access
- Public
- Created
- Oct 22, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 22, 2025
- SHA
- 35369835
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Model card
From the Hugging Face model README
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Whisper Base Swahili - Munene Mutuma
This model is a fine-tuned version of openai/whisper-base on the Common Voice 17.0 dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:
- Loss: 0.6033
- Wer: 39.3269
Model description
More information needed
Intended uses & limitations
More information needed
Training and evaluation data
More information needed
Training procedure
Training hyperparameters
The following hyperparameters were used during training:
- learning_rate: 1e-05
- train_batch_size: 64
- eval_batch_size: 32
- seed: 42
- optimizer: Use OptimizerNames.ADAMW_TORCH with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08 and optimizer_args=No additional optimizer arguments
- lr_scheduler_type: linear
- lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 500
- training_steps: 5000
- mixed_precision_training: Native AMP
Training results
| Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | Wer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.5121 | 1.0893 | 1000 | 0.7500 | 50.1768 |
| 0.3802 | 2.1786 | 2000 | 0.6447 | 43.3016 |
| 0.31 | 3.2680 | 3000 | 0.6139 | 39.4864 |
| 0.2768 | 4.3573 | 4000 | 0.6029 | 39.2423 |
| 0.266 | 5.4466 | 5000 | 0.6033 | 39.3269 |
Framework versions
- Transformers 4.48.0
- Pytorch 2.7.0a0+79aa17489c.nv25.04
- Datasets 3.6.0
- Tokenizers 0.21.4
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Library
- transformers
- Type
- whisper
- License
- apache-2.0
- Languages
- sw
- Created
- Oct 22, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 22, 2025