---
language:
- ig
license: apache-2.0
base_model: openai/whisper-base
tags:
- generated_from_trainer
datasets:
- deepdml/igbo-dict-16khz
- deepdml/igbo-dict-expansion-16khz
metrics:
- wer
model-index:
- name: Whisper Base ig
  results:
  - task:
      name: Automatic Speech Recognition
      type: automatic-speech-recognition
    dataset:
      name: google/fleurs
      type: google/fleurs
      config: ig_ng
      split: test
    metrics:
    - name: Wer
      type: wer
      value: 93.38037030379292
---
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# Whisper Base ig

This model is a fine-tuned version of [openai/whisper-base](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-base) on the google/fleurs dataset.
It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:
- Loss: 1.7179
- Wer: 93.3804

## Model description

More information needed

## Intended uses & limitations

More information needed

## Training and evaluation data

More information needed

## Training procedure

### Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:
- learning_rate: 1e-05
- train_batch_size: 64
- eval_batch_size: 8
- 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

### Training results

| Training Loss | Epoch  | Step | Validation Loss | Wer     |
|:-------------:|:------:|:----:|:---------------:|:-------:|
| 0.2396        | 0.2    | 1000 | 1.3704          | 57.7791 |
| 0.0803        | 1.0814 | 2000 | 1.5414          | 71.3104 |
| 0.0636        | 1.2814 | 3000 | 1.6047          | 94.5668 |
| 0.0346        | 2.1628 | 4000 | 1.6904          | 83.7003 |
| 0.035         | 3.0442 | 5000 | 1.7179          | 93.3804 |


### Framework versions

- Transformers 4.42.0.dev0
- Pytorch 2.3.0+cu121
- Datasets 2.19.1
- Tokenizers 0.19.1

## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{deepdml/whisper-base-ig-mix,
      title={Fine-tuned Whisper base ASR model for speech recognition in Igbo},
      author={Jimenez, David},
      howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/deepdml/whisper-base-ig-mix}},
      year={2025}
    }
```