rishabbahal/whisper-small-nigerian-accent

Whisper Small english - Nigerian accent

This model is a fine-tuned version of openai/whisper-small on the Nigerian accented english dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:

• Loss: 1.3324
• Wer: 48.8060

Model description

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Intended uses & limitations

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Training and evaluation data

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Training procedure

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

• learning_rate: 1e-05
• train_batch_size: 16
• eval_batch_size: 8
• 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: 4000
• mixed_precision_training: Native AMP

Training results

Training Loss	Epoch	Step	Validation Loss	Wer
0.3217	4.6948	1000	0.8267	55.4637
0.0653	9.3897	2000	1.0964	53.9440
0.0161	14.0845	3000	1.2460	51.9901
0.0044	18.7793	4000	1.3324	48.8060

Framework versions

• Transformers 4.45.1
• Pytorch 2.4.1+cu121
• Datasets 3.0.1
• Tokenizers 0.20.0