Sibongile/whisper-small-dv

Whisper Small Zu - Sibongile Manyate

This model is a fine-tuned version of openai/whisper-small on the NCHLT Zulu Speech corpus From Beijuka dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:

• Loss: 0.6037
• Wer Ortho: 46.8646
• Wer: 45.6271

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: 16
• eval_batch_size: 16
• seed: 42
• optimizer: Use adamw_torch 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
0.5162	0.2532	500	0.6037	46.8646	45.6271

Framework versions

• Transformers 4.48.0
• Pytorch 2.5.1+cu124
• Datasets 3.2.0
• Tokenizers 0.21.0