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**Fine-tuned Whisper model for the Levantine Dialect (Israeli-Arabic)**
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## Model Description
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This model is a fine-tuned version of [Whisper Larg v3](https://github.com/openai/whisper) tailored specifically for transcribing Levantine Arabic, focusing on the Israeli dialect. It is designed to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance for this particular variant of Arabic.
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- **Annotation**: Human-transcribed and annotated for high accuracy.
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## How to Use
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The model is compatible with 16kHz audio input. Ensure your files are at the same sample rate for optimal results. You can load the model as follows:
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Will save a .vtt file with transcriptions and timestamps in audio_dir:
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**Fine-tuned Whisper model for the Levantine Dialect (Israeli-Arabic)**
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Thanks to [ivrit.ai](https://github.com/ivrit-ai/ivrit.ai/tree/master) for sharing fine-tuning code scripts!
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## Model Description
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This model is a fine-tuned version of [Whisper Larg v3](https://github.com/openai/whisper) tailored specifically for transcribing Levantine Arabic, focusing on the Israeli dialect. It is designed to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance for this particular variant of Arabic.
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- **Annotation**: Human-transcribed and annotated for high accuracy.
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## How to Use
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The finetuned model was converted using [faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper) package to run up to 4 times faster than openai/whisper.
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The model is compatible with 16kHz audio input. Ensure your files are at the same sample rate for optimal results. You can load the model as follows:
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Will save a .vtt file with transcriptions and timestamps in audio_dir:
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