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whisper-large-bg

Available as managed deployment Audio anuragshas · community Speech→text 1 variants 945 dl/mo

whisper-large-bg is an open-weight audio or speech model from anuragshas. 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 byanuragshas
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-12-19
Popularity945 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What whisper-large-bg is

This model is a fine-tuned version of openai/whisper-large-v2 on the mozilla-foundation/common_voice_11_0 bg dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:

  • Loss: 0.3208
  • Wer: 13.4040
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Model description

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Intended uses & limitations

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Training and evaluation data

More information needed

Training procedure

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

  • learning_rate: 1e-05
  • train_batch_size: 32
  • eval_batch_size: 16
  • seed: 42
  • distributed_type: multi-GPU
  • optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
  • lr_scheduler_type: linear
  • lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 100
  • training_steps: 1000

Training results

Training LossEpochStepValidation LossWer
0.00237.0410000.320813.4040

Framework versions

  • Transformers 4.26.0.dev0
  • Pytorch 1.13.0+cu117
  • Datasets 2.7.1.dev0
  • Tokenizers 0.13.2

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
Automatic Speech Recognitionmozilla-foundation/common_voice_11_0 bgWer13.404

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys whisper-large-bg for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (whisper-large-bg 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-large-bg" -F file=@audio.mp3

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