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PhoWhisper-large

Available as managed deployment Audio vinai Speech→text 1 variants 5k dl/mo

PhoWhisper-large is an open-weight audio or speech model from vinai. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released byvinai
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2023-12-19
Popularity5k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What PhoWhisper-large is

We introduce PhoWhisper in five versions for Vietnamese automatic speech recognition. PhoWhisper's robustness is achieved through fine-tuning the multilingual Whisper on an 844-hour dataset that encompasses diverse Vietnamese accents. Our experimental study demonstrates state-of-the-art performances of PhoWhisper on benchmark Vietnamese ASR datasets. Please cite our PhoWhisper paper when it is used to help produce published results or is incorporated into other software:

@inproceedings{PhoWhisper,
  title     = {{PhoWhisper: Automatic Speech Recognition for Vietnamese}},
  author    = {Thanh-Thien Le and Linh The Nguyen and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ICLR 2024 Tiny Papers track},
  year      = {2024}
}

For further information or requests, please go to PhoWhisper's homepage!

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Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys phowhisper-large for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (phowhisper-large below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -F model="phowhisper-large" -F file=@audio.mp3

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