---
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- whisper-event
- generated_from_trainer
datasets:
- google/fleurs
metrics:
- wer
model-index:
- name: Whisper Small Xhosa
  results:
  - task:
      name: Automatic Speech Recognition
      type: automatic-speech-recognition
    dataset:
      name: google/fleurs xh_za
      type: google/fleurs
      config: xh_za
      split: test
      args: xh_za
    metrics:
    - name: Wer
      type: wer
      value: 65.95120806943467
---

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# Whisper Small Xhosa

This model is a fine-tuned version of [openai/whisper-small](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-small) on the google/fleurs xh_za dataset.
It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:
- Loss: 1.1217
- Wer: 65.9512

## 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: 32
- seed: 42
- optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
- lr_scheduler_type: linear
- lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 50
- training_steps: 200
- mixed_precision_training: Native AMP

### Training results

| Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | Wer     |
|:-------------:|:-----:|:----:|:---------------:|:-------:|
| 0.583         | 7.01  | 100  | 1.0822          | 67.3176 |
| 0.1146        | 14.02 | 200  | 1.1217          | 65.9512 |


### Framework versions

- Transformers 4.26.0.dev0
- Pytorch 1.13.1+cu117
- Datasets 2.8.1.dev0
- Tokenizers 0.13.2