added description and "how to use" example

README.md

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       value: 17.290976821192054
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-
 # Whisper Base Galician
 
-This model is a fine-tuned version of [openai/whisper-base](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-base) on the mozilla-foundation/common_voice_13_0 gl dataset.
-It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:
-- Loss: 0.4360
-- Wer: 17.2910
+## Model summary
+
+**Whisper Base Galician** is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for **Galician (gl)** speech. It is fine-tuned from [openai/whisper-base] on the **Galician portion of Mozilla Common Voice 13.0**, achieving a **Word Error Rate (WER) of 17.29%** on the Common Voice evaluation split.
+
+This model provides a balance between performance and model size, suitable for medium-scale transcription tasks in Galician.
+
+---
 
 ## Model description
 
-More information needed
+* **Architecture:** Transformer-based encoder–decoder (Whisper)
+* **Base model:** openai/whisper-base
+* **Language:** Galician (gl)
+* **Task:** Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+* **Output:** Text transcription in Galician
+* **Decoding:** Autoregressive sequence-to-sequence decoding
+
+Leveraging Whisper’s multilingual pretraining, this base model is fine-tuned on Galician speech data to provide accurate transcription for a low-resource language, appropriate for research, educational, and media applications.
+
+---
+
+## Intended use
+
+### Primary use cases
+
+* Accurate transcription of Galician audio recordings
+* Offline or batch ASR pipelines
+* Research and development in Galician ASR
+* Media, educational, and archival transcription tasks
+
+### Intended users
+
+* Researchers working on Galician or low-resource ASR
+* Developers building Galician speech applications
+* Academic or institutional users
 
-## Intended uses & limitations
+### Out-of-scope use
 
-More information needed
+* Real-time or low-latency ASR without optimization
+* Speech translation tasks
+* Safety-critical applications without validation
+
+---
+
+## Limitations and known issues
+
+* Performance may degrade on:
+  * Noisy or low-quality recordings
+  * Conversational or spontaneous speech
+  * Accents underrepresented in Common Voice
+* Transcription errors may occur under challenging acoustic conditions
+* Dataset biases from Common Voice may be reflected in outputs
+
+Users are encouraged to evaluate the model on their own data before deployment.
+
+---
 
 ## Training and evaluation data
 
-More information needed
+### Training data
+
+* **Dataset:** Mozilla Common Voice 13.0 (Galician subset)
+* **Data type:** Crowd-sourced, read speech
+* **Preprocessing:**
+  * Audio resampled to 16 kHz
+  * Text normalized using Whisper tokenizer
+  * Filtering of invalid or problematic samples
+
+### Evaluation data
+
+* **Dataset:** Mozilla Common Voice 13.0 (Galician evaluation split)
+* **Metric:** Word Error Rate (WER)
+
+---
+
+## Evaluation results
+
+| Metric     | Value      |
+| ---------- | ---------- |
+| WER (eval) | **17.29%** |
+
+This reflects the expected performance of a base Whisper model fine-tuned for Galician.
+
+---
 
 ## Training procedure
 
 ### Training hyperparameters
 
-The following hyperparameters were used during training:
-- learning_rate: 2.5e-05
-- train_batch_size: 128
-- eval_batch_size: 64
-- 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: 5000
-- mixed_precision_training: Native AMP
+* Learning rate: 2.5e-5
+* Optimizer: Adam (β1=0.9, β2=0.999, ε=1e-8)
+* LR scheduler: Linear
+* Warmup steps: 500
+* Training steps: 5,000
+* Train batch size: 128
+* Evaluation batch size: 64
+* Seed: 42
+* Mixed precision training: Native AMP
 
-### Training results
+### Training results (summary)
 
-| Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | Wer     |
+| Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | WER     |
 |:-------------:|:-----:|:----:|:---------------:|:-------:|
 | 0.372         | 10.0  | 1000 | 0.4173          | 21.0023 |
 | 0.1352        | 20.0  | 2000 | 0.3982          | 18.3620 |
@@ -75,27 +139,57 @@ The following hyperparameters were used during training:
 | 0.0371        | 40.0  | 4000 | 0.4310          | 17.4721 |
 | 0.0279        | 50.0  | 5000 | 0.4360          | 17.2910 |
 
+---
+
+## Framework versions
+
+- Transformers 4.37.2  
+- PyTorch 2.2.0+cu121  
+- Datasets 2.16.1  
+- Tokenizers 0.15.1  
+
+---
+
+## How to use
+
+```python
+from transformers import pipeline
+
+hf_model = "HiTZ/whisper-base-gl"  # replace with actual repo ID
+device = 0  # set to -1 for CPU
+
+pipe = pipeline(
+    task="automatic-speech-recognition",
+    model=hf_model,
+    device=device
+)
 
-### Framework versions
+result = pipe("audio.wav")
+print(result["text"])
+```
+
+---
+
+## Ethical considerations and risks
 
-- Transformers 4.37.2
-- Pytorch 2.2.0+cu121
-- Datasets 2.16.1
-- Tokenizers 0.15.1
+* This model transcribes speech and may process personal data.
+* Users should ensure compliance with applicable data protection laws (e.g., GDPR).
+* The model should not be used for surveillance or non-consensual audio processing.
+
+---
 
 ## Citation
 
-If you use these models in your research, please cite:
+If you use this model in your research, please cite:
 
 ```bibtex
 @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}, 
+  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}
 }
 ```
 
@@ -103,9 +197,21 @@ Please, check the related paper preprint in
 [arXiv:2503.23542](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23542)
 for more details.
 
-## Licensing
+---
+
+## License
 
 This model is available under the
 [Apache-2.0 License](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
 You are free to use, modify, and distribute this model as long as you credit
-the original creators.
+the original creators.
+
+---
+
+## Contact and attribution
+
+* Fine-tuning and evaluation: HiTZ/Aholab - Basque Center for Language Technology
+* Base model: OpenAI Whisper
+* Dataset: Mozilla Common Voice
+
+For questions or issues, please open an issue in the model repository.