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+language: it
+license: mit
+tags:
+- whisper
+- automatic-speech-recognition
+- italian
+- ctranslate2
+- faster-whisper
+- whisperx
+- localai
+datasets:
+- mozilla-foundation/common_voice_25_0
+base_model: openai/whisper-tiny
+pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition
+---
+
+# whisper-tiny-it
+
+Fine-tuned [openai/whisper-tiny](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-tiny) (39M params) 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).
+
+## Results
+
+Evaluated on Common Voice 25.0 Italian test set (15,184 samples):
+
+| Step | Train Loss | Eval Loss | WER |
+|------|-----------|-----------|-----|
+| 1000 | — | 0.59 | 37.1% |
+| 3000 | 0.42 | 0.47 | 30.8% |
+| 5000 | — | 0.43 | 28.7% |
+| 10000 | 0.29 | 0.40 | **27.1%** |
+
+## Training Details
+
+- **Base model:** openai/whisper-tiny (39M parameters)
+- **Dataset:** Common Voice 25.0 Italian (173k train, 15k dev, 15k test)
+- **Steps:** 10,000 (batch size 32, ~1.8 epochs)
+- **Learning rate:** 1e-5 with 500 warmup steps
+- **Precision:** bf16 on NVIDIA GB10
+- **Training time:** ~2 hours
+
+## Usage
+
+### Transformers
+
+```python
+from transformers import pipeline
+
+pipe = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model="LocalAI-io/whisper-tiny-it")
+result = pipe("audio.mp3", generate_kwargs={"language": "it", "task": "transcribe"})
+print(result["text"])
+```
+
+### CTranslate2 / faster-whisper
+
+For optimized CPU inference, use the INT8 quantized version: [LocalAI-io/whisper-tiny-it-ct2-int8](https://huggingface.co/LocalAI-io/whisper-tiny-it-ct2-int8) (39MB).
+
+### LocalAI
+
+This model is compatible with [LocalAI](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI) for local, self-hosted AI inference.
+
+## Links
+
+- **Code:** [github.com/localai-org/whisper-it](https://github.com/localai-org/whisper-it)
+- **CTranslate2 INT8:** [LocalAI-io/whisper-tiny-it-ct2-int8](https://huggingface.co/LocalAI-io/whisper-tiny-it-ct2-int8)
+- **LocalAI:** [github.com/mudler/LocalAI](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI)