---
library_name: transformers
language:
- sw
license: apache-2.0
base_model: openai/whisper-small
tags:
- generated_from_trainer
datasets:
- mozilla-foundation/common_voice_11_0
metrics:
- wer
model-index:
- name: Whisper Small Swahili - Oxygene
  results:
  - task:
      name: Automatic Speech Recognition
      type: automatic-speech-recognition
    dataset:
      name: Common Voice 11.0
      type: mozilla-foundation/common_voice_11_0
      config: sw
      split: None
      args: 'config: sw, split: test'
    metrics:
    - name: Wer
      type: wer
      value: 30.023909694921493
---

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# Whisper Small Swahili - Oxygene

This model is a fine-tuned version of [openai/whisper-small](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-small) on the Common Voice 11.0 dataset.
It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:
- Loss: 0.4492
- Wer: 30.0239

## 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: 16
- eval_batch_size: 8
- seed: 42
- optimizer: Use adamw_torch with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08 and optimizer_args=No additional optimizer arguments
- lr_scheduler_type: linear
- lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 500
- training_steps: 4000
- mixed_precision_training: Native AMP

### Training results

| Training Loss | Epoch  | Step | Validation Loss | Wer     |
|:-------------:|:------:|:----:|:---------------:|:-------:|
| 0.4789        | 0.4342 | 1000 | 0.5843          | 37.5957 |
| 0.3985        | 0.8684 | 2000 | 0.4846          | 31.9413 |
| 0.2349        | 1.3026 | 3000 | 0.4658          | 31.1056 |
| 0.2273        | 1.7369 | 4000 | 0.4492          | 30.0239 |


### Framework versions

- Transformers 4.48.1
- Pytorch 2.5.1+cu124
- Datasets 3.2.0
- Tokenizers 0.21.0