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metadata
language:
  - af
license: apache-2.0
base_model: openai/whisper-medium
tags:
  - generated_from_trainer
datasets:
  - google/fleurs
metrics:
  - wer
model-index:
  - name: Whisper Medium af
    results:
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Fleurs
          type: google/fleurs
          config: af_za
          split: test
          args: af_za
        metrics:
          - name: Wer
            type: wer
            value: 24.12121212121212

Whisper Medium af

This model is a fine-tuned version of openai/whisper-medium on the Fleurs dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:

  • Loss: 0.6584
  • Wer: 24.1212
  • Cer: 9.2133

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: 16
  • eval_batch_size: 16
  • seed: 42
  • optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
  • lr_scheduler_type: linear
  • lr_scheduler_warmup_ratio: 0.04
  • training_steps: 600

Training results

Training Loss Epoch Step Validation Loss Wer Cer
0.322 0.1667 100 0.6194 25.8355 9.9346
0.0922 1.1183 200 0.6106 25.8528 10.0431
0.0363 2.07 300 0.6271 24.5714 10.3715
0.019 3.0217 400 0.6469 24.8831 10.5211
0.011 3.1883 500 0.6518 27.1861 11.8553
0.0056 4.14 600 0.6584 24.1212 9.2133

Framework versions

  • Transformers 4.42.0.dev0
  • Pytorch 2.3.0+cu121
  • Datasets 2.19.1
  • Tokenizers 0.19.1

Citation

Please cite the model using the following BibTeX entry:

@misc{deepdml/whisper-medium-af-fleurs-norm,
      title={Fine-tuned Whisper medium ASR model for speech recognition in Afrikaans},
      author={Jimenez, David},
      howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/deepdml/whisper-medium-af-fleurs-norm}},
      year={2026}
    }