Automatic Speech Recognition
Safetensors
Swahili
whisper
swahili
nonstandard-speech
kenya
low-resource
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+ ---
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+ language:
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+ - sw
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+ tags:
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+ - whisper
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+ - automatic-speech-recognition
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+ - swahili
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+ - nonstandard-speech
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+ - kenya
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+ - low-resource
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+ datasets:
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+ - ElizabethMwangi/swahili_afrivoice_all_domains_v0.1
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+ - cdli/common_voice_swahili_small
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+ - cdli/kenyan_swahili_nonstandard_speech_v1.0
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+ base_model: ElizabethMwangi/whisper-large-v3-swahili-afrivoice-cv
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+ license: apache-2.0
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+ ---
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+ # Whisper Large V3 — Swahili NSS (AfriVoice 5 Domains + Common Voice)
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+ Stage 2 nonstandard speech fine-tune of [openai/whisper-large-v3](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3) on the CDLI Kenyan Swahili Nonstandard Speech dataset. Built on top of [ElizabethMwangi/whisper-large-v3-swahili-afrivoice-cv](https://huggingface.co/ElizabethMwangi/whisper-large-v3-swahili-afrivoice-cv), a Stage 1 checkpoint trained on AfriVoice (all 5 domains) interleaved with Common Voice Swahili.
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+ ## Training Details
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+ - **Stage 1 base:** ElizabethMwangi/whisper-large-v3-swahili-afrivoice-cv (AfriVoice 5 domains + Common Voice)
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+ - **Stage 2 dataset:** cdli/kenyan_swahili_nonstandard_speech_v1.0 (849 examples)
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+ - **Language token:** sw
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+ - **Full model training:** encoder, decoder, and projection updated
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+ - **SpecAugment:** On
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+ - **Learning rate:** 5e-5 (polynomial decay, warmup 40 steps)
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+ - **Max steps:** 1000
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+ - **Best checkpoint:** step 550
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+ - **Output dir:** sw_nss_tune_whisper_v3_large_afrivoice_v1.2
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+ ## Results on Kenyan Swahili Nonstandard Speech (test set, best checkpoint)
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+ **Overall, compared to unadapted baseline**
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+ | Model | Overall WER | Avg WER |
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+ | openai/whisper-large-v3 (no adaptation) | 0.845 | - |
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+ | Stage 1 only (afrivoice-cv, no NSS tuning) | 0.498 | - |
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+ | This model (adapted) | 0.328 | 0.276 |
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+ | Metric | Value |
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+ |--------|-------|
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+ | Overall WER | 0.328 |
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+ | Overall CER | 0.158 |
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+ | Avg WER | 0.276 |
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+ | Avg CER | 0.124 |
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+ | Meaning preservation | 76.7% |
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+ **By severity**
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+ | Severity | WER | CER |
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+ |----------|-----|-----|
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+ | Mild | 0.21 | 0.09 |
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+ | Moderate | 0.25 | 0.11 |
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+ | Severe | 0.34 | 0.15 |