whisper-small-lingala-cased

This model is a fine-tuned version of sulaimank/whisper-small-lingala-109hrs on an unknown dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:

• Loss: 0.0556
• Wer Keep: 0.0699
• Cer Keep: 0.0354
• Zindi Keep: 0.9474
• Zindi Strip: 0.9582
• Zindi Lower: 0.9633
• Pct Capitalised: 0.76
• Pct Punctuated: 0.7483

Model description

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Intended uses & limitations

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Training and evaluation data

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Training procedure

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

• learning_rate: 1e-05
• train_batch_size: 16
• eval_batch_size: 16
• seed: 42
• gradient_accumulation_steps: 2
• total_train_batch_size: 32
• optimizer: Use OptimizerNames.ADAMW_TORCH_FUSED 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
• num_epochs: 3.0
• mixed_precision_training: Native AMP

Training results

Training Loss	Epoch	Step	Validation Loss	Wer Keep	Cer Keep	Zindi Keep	Zindi Strip	Zindi Lower	Pct Capitalised	Pct Punctuated
0.2679	0.4470	500	0.2500	0.1616	0.0596	0.8894	0.9176	0.9296	0.775	0.7133
0.1716	0.8941	1000	0.1726	0.1309	0.0460	0.9115	0.9379	0.9476	0.8717	0.8883
0.0939	1.3406	1500	0.1287	0.1006	0.0392	0.9301	0.9523	0.9614	0.7817	0.785
0.071	1.7877	2000	0.0955	0.0944	0.0363	0.9346	0.9533	0.9611	0.7617	0.755
0.0339	2.2342	2500	0.0721	0.0732	0.0329	0.9469	0.9630	0.9691	0.78	0.76
0.0293	2.6813	3000	0.0556	0.0699	0.0354	0.9474	0.9582	0.9633	0.76	0.7483

Framework versions

• Transformers 4.57.6
• Pytorch 2.11.0+cu128
• Datasets 3.6.0
• Tokenizers 0.22.2