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whisper-large-finnish

Available as managed deployment Audio Finnish-NLP Speech→text 1 variants 1k dl/mo

whisper-large-finnish is an open-weight audio or speech model from Finnish-NLP. 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 byFinnish-NLP
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Parameters (lead)1.6B
Runs withtransformers
Released2023-11-25
Popularity1k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What whisper-large-finnish is

  • CV11

    • WER: 14.81
    • WER NORMALIZED: 10.82
    • CER: 2.7
    • CER NORMALIZED: 2.07
  • Fleurs

    • WER: 12.04

    • WER NORMALIZED: 9.63

    • CER: 2.48

    • CER NORMALIZED: 3.64

    • @14000 finetuning steps

      • CV11

        • WER: 11.36
        • WER NORMALIZED: 8.31
        • CER: 1.93
        • CER NORMALIZED: 1.48
      • Fleurs

        • WER: 10.2
        • WER NORMALIZED: 8.56
        • CER: 2.26
        • CER NORMALIZED: 3.54
    • @32000 finetuning steps

      • CV11

        • WER: 11.47
        • WER NORMALIZED: 8.23
        • CER: 1.91
        • CER NORMALIZED: 1.43
      • Fleurs

        • WER: 10.1
        • WER NORMALIZED: 8.21
        • CER: 2.2
        • CER NORMALIZED: 3.23

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 RecognitionCommon Voice 11.0Wer8.230
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice 11.0Cer1.430
Automatic Speech RecognitionFLEURSWer8.210
Automatic Speech RecognitionFLEURSCer3.230

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

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