Whisper Talk by Jong Wook Kim: a presentation on the Whisper model, explaining the motivation, architecture, training and results, delivered by Whisper author Jong Wook Kim
End-to-End Speech Benchmark (ESB): a paper that comprehensively argues for using the orthographic WER as opposed to the normalised WER for evaluating ASR systems and presents an accompanying benchmark
Fine-Tuning Whisper for Multilingual ASR: an in-depth blog post that explains how the Whisper model works in more detail, and the pre- and post-processing steps involved with the feature extractor and tokenizer
Fine-tuning MMS Adapter Models for Multi-Lingual ASR: an end-to-end guide for fine-tuning Meta AI’s new MMS speech recognition models, freezing the base model weights and only fine-tuning a small number of adapter layers