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whisper-small-shona-v3

Automatic Speech Recognition

multi-stage-finetuning

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🌾 Verdi AI OS: Whisper Small Shona ASR (Stage 1c Mastered Core)

This repository hosts a completely standalone, fully compiled model optimized natively for the Shona language (sn-ZW).

📊 Training Progression Metrics

Stage 1a (FLEURS Baseline): Baseline WER dropped to 37.15%
Stage 1b (Bible Chunk 1): Dropped WER to 29.39%
Stage 1c (Bible Chunk 2 & 3 Increments): Achieved new floor of 25.52% WER.

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Test WER on google/fleurs + manassehzw/shona-bible-bdsc-aligned
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25.520