HiTZ/whisper-medium-ca

Whisper Medium Catalan

This model is a fine-tuned version of openai/whisper-medium on the mozilla-foundation/common_voice_13_0 ca dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:

• Loss: 0.1434
• Wer: 5.9954

Model description

More information needed

Intended uses & limitations

More information needed

Training and evaluation data

More information needed

Training procedure

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

• learning_rate: 1e-05
• train_batch_size: 64
• eval_batch_size: 32
• seed: 42
• optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
• lr_scheduler_type: linear
• lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 500
• training_steps: 10000

Training results

Training Loss	Epoch	Step	Validation Loss	Wer
0.1158	1.05	1000	0.1846	8.3630
0.0184	3.05	2000	0.2017	8.0629
0.0522	5.04	3000	0.1940	8.1177
0.0595	7.04	4000	0.1742	7.4696
0.0179	9.04	5000	0.1899	7.3095
0.0646	11.04	6000	0.1555	6.3441
0.0825	13.03	7000	0.1810	6.4841
0.0309	15.03	8000	0.1464	6.3544
0.0695	17.03	9000	0.1434	5.9954
0.0186	19.03	10000	0.1706	6.1097

Framework versions

• Transformers 4.33.0.dev0
• Pytorch 2.0.1+cu117
• Datasets 2.14.4
• Tokenizers 0.13.3

Citation

If you use these models in your research, please cite:

@misc{dezuazo2025whisperlmimprovingasrmodels,
      title={Whisper-LM: Improving ASR Models with Language Models for Low-Resource Languages}, 
      author={Xabier de Zuazo and Eva Navas and Ibon Saratxaga and Inma Hernáez Rioja},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2503.23542},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23542}, 
}

Please, check the related paper preprint in arXiv:2503.23542 for more details.

Licensing

This model is available under the Apache-2.0 License. You are free to use, modify, and distribute this model as long as you credit the original creators.