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whisper-small-isizulu-specaugment
zionia/whisper-small-isizulu-specaugment
whisper-small-isizulu-specaugment is a automatic speech recognition model from zionia. Use it when you need speech turned into text. The card lists the license as apache-2.0.
This model is a fine-tuned version of openai/whisper-small on multiple South African language datasets.
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At a glance
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- License
- apache-2.0
- Model type
- whisper
- Access
- Public
- Created
- Nov 12, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 12, 2025
- SHA
- fde8b131
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Model card
From the Hugging Face model README
Whisper Small - Combined South African Languages
This model is a fine-tuned version of openai/whisper-small on multiple South African language datasets.
Training Data
This model was trained on 2 combined datasets:
- zionia/isizulu-asr-train
- zionia/isizulu-asr-specaugment
Total training samples: 1060 Total test samples: 265
Training Details
- Training epochs: 15
- Learning rate: 1e-05
- Batch size: 16
- Best WER: 90.40%
Usage
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model="zionia/whisper-small-isizulu-specaugment")
result = pipe("path/to/audio.wav")
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Type
- whisper
- License
- apache-2.0
- Languages
- zu
- Created
- Nov 12, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 12, 2025