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Africanvoice/african_voices_large_naija

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Whisper Large model finetuned using African Voices Naija Dataset

This model is a fine-tuned version of openai/whisper-large-v3 for Naija Pidgin Language.

Model Description

Whisper Large model finetuned using African Voices Naija Dataset is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model trained on Africanvoice/African_voices_naija dataset.

Performance

—eval_loss: 0.20
—WER: 8.28%

Training Details

—Epochs: 9
—Batch Size: 16
—Learning Rate: 1e-6

Usage

python

from transformers import pipeline

# Load the model
pipe = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model="Africanvoice/african_voices_large_naija")

# Transcribe audio
result = pipe("path/to/audio.wav")
print(result["text"])

Citation

If you use this model, please cite:

bibtex

@misc{Whisper Large model finetuned using African Voices Naija Dataset,
  author = {EqualyzAI and African Voices Team},
  title = {Whisper Large model finetuned using African Voices Naija Dataset},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {HuggingFace},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/Africanvoice/african_voices_large_naija}}
}