Model reference · open weights
whisper-tiny-lv is an open-weight audio or speech model from RaivisDejus. 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 | RaivisDejus |
|---|---|
| Type | Audio & music |
| Task | Speech→text |
| Parameters (lead) | 38M |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2024-04-28 |
| Popularity | 644 downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
Trained on combination of:
Both regular whisper model and CTranslate2 converted version for use with faster-whisper as part of Home Assistant Whisper integration are available.
Speech recognition quality is poor, more data is needed, donate your voice on Balsu talka
For better recognition quality use whisper-small-lv model, it is noticeably better and only slightly slower.
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys whisper-tiny-lv for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (whisper-tiny-lv 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-tiny-lv" -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.