“Artificial Intelligence is a very alien intelligence – just like birds inspired airplanes, but airplanes work very differently than birds.” — dynamite quote from @sama
RESEARCH
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EdoAbati’s Fine-Tuned Whisper Model Achieves Superior Performance Score
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Italian EdoAbati's fine-tuned Whisper large checkpoint scores a fantastic 6.3 when compared to 9.4 (large) Model:
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Fine-tuned Whisper Model Achieves Breakthrough Northern Sami Language Support
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Saved the special one for the last! Northern Sami language – A language that is not even supported by the Whisper model. @versae
's fine-tuned Whisper large checkpoint gets an astounding 24.55 Model: -
Whisper Large Fine-tuned Reduces Swahili Speech Recognition Error
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Swahili @wheelz86's fine-tuned Whisper large checkpoint managed to get the WER down from 39.3 (large) -> 30.7 Model: https://
huggingface.co/hedronstone/wh
isper-large-v2-sw
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Fine-tuned Whisper Model Achieves Impressive Greek Speech Recognition
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Now for some high-resource languages,
Greek @4re3d0m
's fine-tuned Whisper large checkpoint gets an impressive 10.14 WER when compared to 16 (large) Model: https://
huggingface.co/emilios/whispe
r-large-v2-el-c2
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Fine-tuned Whisper Model Achieves 17.8 WER for Latvian
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Latvian @anuragcomm
's fine-tuned Whisper large checkpoint gets an impressive WER of 17.8 when compared to 25.5 by the large checkpoint! Model: -
Whisper Small Model Achieves 8.56 WER for Catalan Speech
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Catalan @jordimash
's fine-tuned Whisper small checkpoint produced an astounding WER of 8.56 compared to 23.8 by the large checkpoint! Model: https://
huggingface.co/softcatala/whi
sper-small-ca
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huggingface.co/spaces/softcat
ala/whisper-demo-catalan
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Fine-tuned Whisper Model Achieves Significant WER Improvement for Kannada
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Kannada @saiteya10294's fine-tuned Whisper small checkpoint managed to get the WER down from 100.4 (large) -> 23.1! Model: https://
huggingface.co/steja/whisper-
small-kannada
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Lithuanian Whisper Model Achieves Major WER Improvement
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Lithuanian @DeividasMat
's fine-tuned Whisper medium checkpoint managed to get the WER down from 35.2 (large) -> 20.44 Model: -

Whisper Fine-tuning Event Results with LambdaAPI
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10 days into the Whisper fine-tuning event powered by @LambdaAPI and we are well on our descent into the WER land! Here are a select few examples of fine-tuned models and how they compare with zero-shot performance Whisper!