Model reference · open weights
whisper-ja-anime is an open-weight audio or speech model from efwkjn. 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 by | efwkjn |
|---|---|
| Type | Audio & music |
| Task | Speech→text |
| Parameters (lead) | 769M |
| Released | 2025-06-01 |
| Popularity | 1k downloads / month |
| Licence | Unknown |
About
For usage instructions follow openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo. Note for faster-whisper vocab changes make model.is_multilingual and suppress_tokens wrong. Please adjust the code as required if you want to use this with faster-whisper.
Turbo finetune with japanese tokenizer. Full finetune trained 2^19 steps, batch size 64. Smaller vocab with ~1.6x bytes/token allows faster speed with 4 layers vs 2 layer distil (10% larger decoder).
Benchmarks. Short form slightly behind v0.2 (trained less?) but long form much better. Also trained for lyrics but untested.
Research supported with Cloud TPUs from Google's TPU Research Cloud (TRC)
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys whisper-ja-anime for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (whisper-ja-anime 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="whisper-ja-anime" -F file=@audio.mp3
Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.