Veronica1NW/sw_whisper_nonstandard_small

Languages: Swahili (sw) — Non-standard / accented varieties from Kenyan speakers

This model was fine-tuned on non-standard and accented Swahili speech using Common Voice and additional curated speech data from Kenyan speakers. The goal was to improve ASR performance on regional Swahili accents and non-standard pronunciations.

Fine-tuning data: Subset of Mozilla Common Voice + curated non-standard Swahili speech

📊 Evaluation

Metric	Pre-train	Test
WER	0.3737	0.3123
CER	0.1566	0.1317