whisper-small-afrispeech

This model is a fine-tuned version of openai/whisper-small on the AfriSpeech-200 dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:

• Loss: 0.5951
• Wer Ortho: 20.5418
• Wer: 16.2611

Model description

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Intended uses & limitations

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Training and evaluation data

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Training procedure

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

• learning_rate: 1e-05
• train_batch_size: 8
• eval_batch_size: 8
• seed: 42
• gradient_accumulation_steps: 2
• total_train_batch_size: 16
• optimizer: Use OptimizerNames.ADAMW_TORCH_FUSED with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08 and optimizer_args=No additional optimizer arguments
• lr_scheduler_type: constant_with_warmup
• lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 50
• training_steps: 500
• mixed_precision_training: Native AMP

Training results

Training Loss	Epoch	Step	Validation Loss	Wer Ortho	Wer
0.0475	6.0976	500	0.5951	20.5418	16.2611

Framework versions

• Transformers 4.57.2
• Pytorch 2.9.0+cu126
• Datasets 2.18.0
• Tokenizers 0.22.1