---
language: lin
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition
tags:
- mms
- wav2vec2
- ctc
- asr
- waxal
- lingala
---

# MMS-300M — Lingala ASR

`facebook/mms-300m` fine-tuned (character CTC head) on WaxalNLP `lin_asr` for the Waxal ASR challenge. Trained in bf16/fp32 with `ctc_zero_infinity=True`.

`language_model/lm_lin.arpa` is a KenLM 4-gram built from the training transcriptions, for beam-search decoding with pyctcdecode (tune alpha/beta on validation).