---
language: it
license: mit
tags:
- whisper
- automatic-speech-recognition
- italian
- localai
datasets:
- mozilla-foundation/common_voice_25_0
base_model: openai/whisper-tiny
pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition
---

# whisper-tiny-it-yodas-only

Fine-tuned [openai/whisper-tiny](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-tiny) for Italian automatic speech recognition (ASR).

**Author:** Ettore Di Giacinto

Brought to you by the [LocalAI](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI) team. This model can be used directly with [LocalAI](https://localai.io).

## Training Details

- **Base model:** openai/whisper-tiny
- **Dataset:** YODAS-Granary Italian (asr_only + ast capped at 200000)
- **Steps:** 10,000
- **Precision:** bf16

## Usage

### Transformers

```python
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model="LocalAI-io/whisper-tiny-it-yodas-only")
result = pipe("audio.mp3", generate_kwargs={"language": "it", "task": "transcribe"})
print(result["text"])
```

### CTranslate2 / faster-whisper (INT8, optimized for CPU)

See: [LocalAI-io/whisper-tiny-it-yodas-only-ct2-int8](https://huggingface.co/LocalAI-io/whisper-tiny-it-yodas-only-ct2-int8)

## Links

- **CTranslate2 INT8:** [LocalAI-io/whisper-tiny-it-yodas-only-ct2-int8](https://huggingface.co/LocalAI-io/whisper-tiny-it-yodas-only-ct2-int8)
- **Code:** [github.com/mudler/italian-asr](https://github.com/mudler/italian-asr)
- **LocalAI:** [github.com/mudler/LocalAI](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI)