---
language:
- lg
tags:
- whisper
- automatic-speech-recognition
- luganda
- uganda
- low-resource
datasets:
- google/WaxalNLP
base_model: openai/whisper-large-v3
license: apache-2.0
---

# Whisper Large V3 — Luganda Stage 1 (Waxal, no SpecAugment)

Stage 1 fine-tune of [openai/whisper-large-v3](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3) on the WaxalNLP Luganda standard speech dataset.
This is the original Stage 1 checkpoint **without SpecAugment**, used as the base for early Stage 2 runs (v16, v17, v20).

## Training Details

- **Dataset:** google/WaxalNLP (lug_asr split)
- **Language token:** sw (Swahili used as proxy for Luganda)
- **Full model training:** encoder, decoder, and projection updated
- **SpecAugment:** Off
- **Output dir:** lg_waxal_tune_large_1