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whisper-small-khmer

Available as managed deployment Audio seanghay · community Speech→text 1 variants 825 dl/mo

whisper-small-khmer is an open-weight audio or speech model from seanghay. 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 byseanghay
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Parameters (lead)242M
Runs withtransformers
Released2023-05-03
Popularity825 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What whisper-small-khmer is

This model is a fine-tuned version of openai/whisper-small on the openslr, google/fleurs and km-speech-corpus dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:

  • Loss: 0.26
  • Wer: 0.6165
Read the full model card

Model description

This model is fine-tuned with Google FLEURS, OpenSLR (SLR42) and km-speech-corpus dataset.

from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline(
    task="automatic-speech-recognition",
    model="seanghay/whisper-small-khmer-v2",
)

result = pipe("audio.wav",
  generate_kwargs={
    "language":"",
    "task":"transcribe"},
    batch_size=16
)

print(result["text"])

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 RecognitionGoogle FLEURSWer0.617

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

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