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whisper-large-ru-podlodka

Available as managed deployment Audio bond005 · community Speech→text 1 variants 5k dl/mo

whisper-large-ru-podlodka is an open-weight audio or speech model from bond005. 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 bybond005
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Parameters (lead)1.5B
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-05-02
Popularity5k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What whisper-large-ru-podlodka is

This repository contains a fine-tuned Whisper Large V3 model for Russian speech recognition. It serves as the core transcription component of the Pisets system, specifically optimized for long audio recordings such as lectures and interviews.

The model was presented in the paper Pisets: A Robust Speech Recognition System for Lectures and Interviews.

Read the full model card

System Architecture

The Pisets system implements a three-component architecture to improve recognition accuracy while minimizing hallucinations:

  1. Wav2Vec2: For primary recognition and segmentation.
  2. Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST): For filtering non-speech segments.
  3. Whisper (this model): For the final high-quality transcription.

Implementation

The complete source code and instructions for using the system (including generation of SRT and DocX files) can be found in the GitHub repository:

GitHub: https://github.com/bond005/pisets

Citation

If you use this model or the Pisets system in your research, please cite:

@article{bondarenko2026pisets,
  title={Pisets: A Robust Speech Recognition System for Lectures and Interviews},
  author={Ivan Bondarenko},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.18415},
  year={2026}
}

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
Speech RecognitionPodlodka.ioWER (with punctuation and capital letters)20.910
Speech RecognitionPodlodka.ioWER (without punctuation)10.987
Speech RecognitionRussian LibrispeechWER (without punctuation)9.795

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

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