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mmwanje/waxal-whisper-small
waxal-whisper-small is a automatic speech recognition model from mmwanje. Use it when you need speech turned into text. It is set up for transformers. The card lists the license as apache-2.0.
Fine-tuned openai/whisper-small on Google WaxalNLP (Lingala, Shona, Luganda).
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At a glance
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Library
- transformers
- License
- apache-2.0
- Model type
- whisper
- Access
- Public
- Created
- Jul 26, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 26, 2026
- SHA
- fcb429bb
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Model card
From the Hugging Face model README
waxal-whisper-small
Fine-tuned openai/whisper-small on Google WaxalNLP (Lingala, Shona, Luganda).
Trained on Apple Silicon (MPS), ~5000 steps, joint multilingual fine-tune.
Usage
from transformers import WhisperProcessor, WhisperForConditionalGeneration
repo = "mmwanje/waxal-whisper-small"
processor = WhisperProcessor.from_pretrained(repo)
model = WhisperForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(repo)
| Code | Language | Whisper lang token |
|---|---|---|
| lin | Lingala | lingala |
| sna | Shona | shona |
| lug | Luganda | swahili (closest) |
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Library
- transformers
- Type
- whisper
- License
- apache-2.0
- Languages
- ln, sn, lg
- Created
- Jul 26, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 26, 2026