Unose-Huen-Small (v0.5)

Unose-Huen-Small is a fine-tuned Whisper Small model (244M parameters) optimized for Nigerian English speech recognition, low-register phonetic clarity, and colloquial cadence.

Developed by Igunosa Labs as part of the Unose speech suite.

Model Details

Architecture: Whisper Small (Encoder-Decoder Transformer, 12 layers, 244M params)
Validation WER: 37.07% on the Nigerian Accented English benchmark (11.31% absolute improvement over Base)
Inference Targets: CPU / GPU / edge
Available Formats: PyTorch safetensors, CTranslate2 (, , , )

Ecosystem Links

Official GitHub Codebase: https://github.com/Igunosa-Labs/unose-huen
Sister Model (Base 74M): igunosalabs/Unose-Huen-Base
TTS Model: igunosalabs/Unose-Voice-v1.0

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