---
language:
- ar
license: apache-2.0
base_model: openai/whisper-base
tags:
- generated_from_trainer
datasets:
- UBC-NLP/Casablanca
- google/fleurs
- ymoslem/MediaSpeech
- mozilla-foundation/common_voice_17_0
metrics:
- wer
model-index:
- name: Whisper Base ar
  results:
  - task:
      name: Automatic Speech Recognition
      type: automatic-speech-recognition
    dataset:
      name: Common Voice 17.0
      type: UBC-NLP/Casablanca
      config: ar
      split: test
      args: ar
    metrics:
    - name: Wer
      type: wer
      value: 60.7676585850631
---
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# Whisper Base ar

This model is a fine-tuned version of [openai/whisper-base](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-base) on the Common Voice 17.0 dataset.
It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:
- Loss: 2.6739
- Wer: 60.7677

## 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: 64
- eval_batch_size: 8
- seed: 42
- optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
- lr_scheduler_type: linear
- lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 500
- training_steps: 5000

### Training results

| Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | Wer     |
|:-------------:|:-----:|:----:|:---------------:|:-------:|
| 0.6127        | 0.2   | 1000 | 2.1392          | 51.3435 |
| 0.3365        | 0.4   | 2000 | 2.4225          | 48.5384 |
| 0.2029        | 0.6   | 3000 | 2.5954          | 50.8035 |
| 0.1403        | 0.8   | 4000 | 2.7056          | 53.3236 |
| 0.1053        | 1.0   | 5000 | 2.6739          | 60.7677 |


### Framework versions

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

## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{deepdml/whisper-base-ar-mix-norm,
      title={Fine-tuned Whisper base ASR model for speech recognition in Arabic},
      author={Jimenez, David},
      howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/deepdml/whisper-base-ar-mix-norm}},
      year={2025}
    }
```