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- <!-- This model card has been generated automatically according to the information the Trainer had access to. You
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  # Whisper Small Galician
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- This model is a fine-tuned version of [openai/whisper-small](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-small) on the mozilla-foundation/common_voice_13_0 gl dataset.
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- It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:
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- - Loss: 0.3555
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- - Wer: 10.9875
 
 
 
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  ## Model description
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- More information needed
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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- ## Intended uses & limitations
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- More information needed
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  ## Training and evaluation data
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- More information needed
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  ## Training procedure
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  ### Training hyperparameters
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- The following hyperparameters were used during training:
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- - learning_rate: 1e-05
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- - train_batch_size: 64
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- - eval_batch_size: 32
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- - seed: 42
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- - optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
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- - lr_scheduler_type: linear
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- - lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 500
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- - training_steps: 5000
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- ### Training results
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- | Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | Wer |
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  |:-------------:|:-----:|:----:|:---------------:|:-------:|
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  | 0.0214 | 4.04 | 1000 | 0.2737 | 11.5394 |
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  | 0.0024 | 9.04 | 2000 | 0.3159 | 11.0565 |
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- ### Framework versions
 
 
 
 
 
 
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- - Transformers 4.33.0.dev0
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- - Pytorch 2.0.1+cu117
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- - Datasets 2.14.4
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- - Tokenizers 0.13.3
 
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  ## Citation
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- If you use these models in your research, please cite:
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  ```bibtex
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  @misc{dezuazo2025whisperlmimprovingasrmodels,
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- title={Whisper-LM: Improving ASR Models with Language Models for Low-Resource Languages},
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- author={Xabier de Zuazo and Eva Navas and Ibon Saratxaga and Inma Hernáez Rioja},
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- year={2025},
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- eprint={2503.23542},
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- archivePrefix={arXiv},
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- primaryClass={cs.CL},
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- url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23542},
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  }
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  ```
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  [arXiv:2503.23542](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23542)
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  for more details.
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- ## Licensing
 
 
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  This model is available under the
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  [Apache-2.0 License](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
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  You are free to use, modify, and distribute this model as long as you credit
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  # Whisper Small Galician
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+ ## Model summary
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+ **Whisper Small Galician** is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for **Galician (gl)** speech. It is fine-tuned from [openai/whisper-small] on the **Galician portion of Mozilla Common Voice 13.0**, achieving a **Word Error Rate (WER) of 10.99%** on the Common Voice evaluation split.
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+ This model provides a good balance between transcription accuracy and computational efficiency, suitable for small-to-medium scale Galician ASR tasks.
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  ## Model description
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+ * **Architecture:** Transformer-based encoder–decoder (Whisper)
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+ * **Base model:** openai/whisper-small
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+ * **Language:** Galician (gl)
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+ * **Task:** Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
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+ * **Output:** Text transcription in Galician
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+ * **Decoding:** Autoregressive sequence-to-sequence decoding
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+ The small model leverages Whisper’s multilingual pretraining and is fine-tuned on Galician speech data to provide accurate transcription with reasonable resource requirements, suitable for research, education, and media applications.
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+ ## Intended use
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+ ### Primary use cases
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+ * Accurate transcription of Galician audio recordings
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+ * Offline or batch ASR pipelines
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+ * Research and development in Galician ASR
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+ * Media, educational, and archival transcription tasks
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+ ### Intended users
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+ * Researchers working on Galician or low-resource ASR
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+ * Developers building Galician speech applications
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+ * Academic or institutional users
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+ ### Out-of-scope use
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+ * Real-time or low-latency ASR without optimization
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+ * Speech translation tasks
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+ * Safety-critical applications without validation
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+ ## Limitations and known issues
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+ * Performance may degrade on:
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+ * Noisy or low-quality recordings
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+ * Conversational or spontaneous speech
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+ * Accents underrepresented in Common Voice
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+ * Transcription errors may still occur under challenging acoustic conditions
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+ * Dataset biases from Common Voice may be reflected in outputs
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+ Users are encouraged to evaluate the model on their own data before deployment.
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  ## Training and evaluation data
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+ ### Training data
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+ * **Dataset:** Mozilla Common Voice 13.0 (Galician subset)
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+ * **Data type:** Crowd-sourced, read speech
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+ * **Preprocessing:**
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+ * Audio resampled to 16 kHz
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+ * Text normalized using Whisper tokenizer
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+ * Filtering of invalid or problematic samples
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+ ### Evaluation data
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+ * **Dataset:** Mozilla Common Voice 13.0 (Galician evaluation split)
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+ * **Metric:** Word Error Rate (WER)
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+ ## Evaluation results
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+ | Metric | Value |
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+ | WER (eval) | **10.99%** |
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+ This reflects the expected performance of a small Whisper model fine-tuned for Galician.
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  ## Training procedure
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+ * Learning rate: 1e-5
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+ * Optimizer: Adam (β1=0.9, β2=0.999, ε=1e-8)
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+ * LR scheduler: Linear
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+ * Warmup steps: 500
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+ * Training steps: 5,000
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+ * Train batch size: 64
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+ * Evaluation batch size: 32
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+ * Seed: 42
 
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+ ### Training results (summary)
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+ | Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | WER |
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  |:-------------:|:-----:|:----:|:---------------:|:-------:|
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  | 0.0214 | 4.04 | 1000 | 0.2737 | 11.5394 |
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  | 0.0024 | 9.04 | 2000 | 0.3159 | 11.0565 |
 
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  | 0.0006 | 24.04 | 5000 | 0.3555 | 10.9875 |
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+ ## Framework versions
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+ - Transformers 4.33.0.dev0
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+ - PyTorch 2.0.1+cu117
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+ - Datasets 2.14.4
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+ - Tokenizers 0.13.3
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+ ## How to use
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+ ```python
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+ from transformers import pipeline
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+ hf_model = "HiTZ/whisper-small-gl" # replace with actual repo ID
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+ device = 0 # set to -1 for CPU
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+ pipe = pipeline(
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+ task="automatic-speech-recognition",
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+ model=hf_model,
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+ device=device
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+ result = pipe("audio.wav")
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+ print(result["text"])
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+ ```
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+ ## Ethical considerations and risks
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+ * This model transcribes speech and may process personal data.
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+ * Users should ensure compliance with applicable data protection laws (e.g., GDPR).
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+ * The model should not be used for surveillance or non-consensual audio processing.
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  ## Citation
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+ If you use this model in your research, please cite:
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  ```bibtex
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  @misc{dezuazo2025whisperlmimprovingasrmodels,
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+ title={Whisper-LM: Improving ASR Models with Language Models for Low-Resource Languages},
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+ author={Xabier de Zuazo and Eva Navas and Ibon Saratxaga and Inma Hernáez Rioja},
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+ year={2025},
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+ eprint={2503.23542},
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+ archivePrefix={arXiv},
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+ primaryClass={cs.CL}
 
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  }
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  ```
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  [arXiv:2503.23542](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23542)
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  for more details.
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+ ## License
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  This model is available under the
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  [Apache-2.0 License](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
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  You are free to use, modify, and distribute this model as long as you credit
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+ the original creators.
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+ ---
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+ ## Contact and attribution
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+ * Fine-tuning and evaluation: HiTZ/Aholab - Basque Center for Language Technology
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+ * Base model: OpenAI Whisper
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+ * Dataset: Mozilla Common Voice
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+ For questions or issues, please open an issue in the model repository.