Model reference · open weights
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 by | Finnish-NLP |
|---|---|
| Type | Audio & music |
| Task | Speech→text |
| Parameters (lead) | 1.6B |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2023-11-25 |
| Popularity | 1k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
CV11
Fleurs
WER: 12.04
WER NORMALIZED: 9.63
CER: 2.48
CER NORMALIZED: 3.64
@14000 finetuning steps
CV11
Fleurs
@32000 finetuning steps
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Fleurs
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Benchmarks
As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic Speech Recognition | Common Voice 11.0 | Wer | 8.230 |
| Automatic Speech Recognition | Common Voice 11.0 | Cer | 1.430 |
| Automatic Speech Recognition | FLEURS | Wer | 8.210 |
| Automatic Speech Recognition | FLEURS | Cer | 3.230 |
Using it via the API
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
Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.