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🎯 WAVe-1B-Multimodal-NL: Word-Level Speech Quality Assessment for Dutch
Following the release of the Portuguese model, we're releasing the Dutch variant of WAVe — a 1B multimodal embedding model that assesses synthetic speech quality at the word level, thereby improving the quality of synthetically augmented datasets for training ASR models.
Trained on CommonVoice 16.1 Dutch with 5 corruption strategies, this model catches mispronunciations, timing errors, and prosody issues in synthetic data that sentence-level embeddings miss entirely.
Resources
- Dutch model: yuriyvnv/WAVe-1B-Multimodal-NL
- Portuguese model: yuriyvnv/WAVe-1B-Multimodal-PT
- Code: https://github.com/yuriyvnv/WAVe
This model builds on CommonVoice Dutch data — thanks to @mozilla and the CommonVoice community for making multilingual speech data accessible.
Would be great to hear from the Dutch NLP community — @BramVanroy @GroNLP — especially if you're working on Dutch ASR or TTS pipelines where quality filtering could help. Also tagging @hf-audio as this sits at the intersection of speech processing and data curation.
Following the release of the Portuguese model, we're releasing the Dutch variant of WAVe — a 1B multimodal embedding model that assesses synthetic speech quality at the word level, thereby improving the quality of synthetically augmented datasets for training ASR models.
Trained on CommonVoice 16.1 Dutch with 5 corruption strategies, this model catches mispronunciations, timing errors, and prosody issues in synthetic data that sentence-level embeddings miss entirely.
Resources
- Dutch model: yuriyvnv/WAVe-1B-Multimodal-NL
- Portuguese model: yuriyvnv/WAVe-1B-Multimodal-PT
- Code: https://github.com/yuriyvnv/WAVe
This model builds on CommonVoice Dutch data — thanks to @mozilla and the CommonVoice community for making multilingual speech data accessible.
Would be great to hear from the Dutch NLP community — @BramVanroy @GroNLP — especially if you're working on Dutch ASR or TTS pipelines where quality filtering could help. Also tagging @hf-audio as this sits at the intersection of speech processing and data curation.