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whettenr/asr-fon-with-diacritics

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Fongbe ASR model with diacritics

How to use for inference

python

from speechbrain.inference.ASR import EncoderASR

asr_model = EncoderASR.from_hparams(
    source="whettenr/asr-fon-with-diacritics",
    savedir="pretrained_models/asr-fongbe-with-diacritics"
)

asr_model.transcribe_file("whettenr/asr-fon-with-diacritics/example.wav")

# expected output:
# huzuhuzu gɔngɔn ɖé ɖò dandan

Details of model

~100M parameters, 12 layer conformer encoder, FFNN decoder

Details of training

—pretrained using BEST-RQ on 140 hours
—FFSTC 2 + beethogedeon/fongbe-speech (~40 hours)
—cappfm (~100 hours)
—finetuned with CTC loss on training sets of
—FFSTC 2
—beethogedeon/fongbe-speech

@inproceedings{kponou25_interspeech,
  title     = {{Extending the Fongbe to French Speech Translation Corpus:  resources, models and benchmark}},
  author    = {D. Fortuné Kponou and Salima Mdhaffar and Fréjus A. A. Laleye and Eugène C. Ezin and Yannick Estève},
  year      = {2025},
  booktitle = {{Interspeech 2025}},
  pages     = {4533--4537},
  doi       = {10.21437/Interspeech.2025-1801},
  issn      = {2958-1796},
}