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LocalAI-io/whisper-large-v3-it-multi

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whisper-large-v3-it-multi

Fine-tuned openai/whisper-large-v3 (1.55B params) for Italian ASR on multiple datasets.

Author: Ettore Di Giacinto

Brought to you by the LocalAI team. This model can be used directly with LocalAI.

Usage with LocalAI

This model is ready to use with LocalAI via the whisperx backend.

Save the following as whisperx-large-v3-it-multi.yaml in your LocalAI models directory:

yaml

name: whisperx-large-v3-it-multi
backend: whisperx
known_usecases:
  - transcript
parameters:
  model: LocalAI-io/whisper-large-v3-it-multi-ct2-int8
  language: it

Then transcribe audio via the OpenAI-compatible endpoint:

bash

curl http://localhost:8080/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
  -F file="@audio.mp3" \
  -F model="whisperx-large-v3-it-multi"

Training Details

—Base model: openai/whisper-large-v3 (1.55B parameters)
—Datasets: Common Voice 25.0 Italian (173k) + MLS Italian (60k) + VoxPopuli Italian (23k) = 255k train samples
—Steps: 10,000
—Precision: bf16 on NVIDIA GB10
—Note: trained with --no-eval; final WER to be measured separately

Usage

Transformers

python

from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model="LocalAI-io/whisper-large-v3-it-multi")
result = pipe("audio.mp3", generate_kwargs={"language": "it", "task": "transcribe"})
print(result["text"])

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