---
language:
- ta
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- whisper-event
metrics:
- wer
model-index:
- name: Whisper Tamil Large-v2 - Vasista Sai Lodagala
  results:
  - task:
      type: automatic-speech-recognition
      name: Automatic Speech Recognition
    dataset:
      name: google/fleurs
      type: google/fleurs
      config: ta_in
      split: test
    metrics:
    - type: wer
      value: 7.5
      name: WER
  - task:
      type: automatic-speech-recognition
      name: Automatic Speech Recognition
    dataset:
      name: mozilla-foundation/common_voice_11_0
      type: mozilla-foundation/common_voice_11_0
      config: ta
      split: test
    metrics:
    - type: wer
      value: 6.61
      name: WER
---

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# Whisper Tamil Large-v2

This model is a fine-tuned version of [openai/whisper-large-v2](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v2) on the Tamil data available from multiple publicly available ASR corpuses.
It has been fine-tuned as a part of the Whisper fine-tuning sprint.

## Training and evaluation data at Speech Lab, IITM

Training Data: MILE ASR Corpus, ULCA ASR Corpus, Shrutilipi ASR Corpus, Microsoft Research Tamil Corpus (Train+Dev), Babel ASR Corpus, Google/Fleurs (Train+Dev) set.

Evaluation Data: MILE ASR Corpus Test, Babel Test, Microsoft Research Tamil Corpus Test, Google/Fleurs Test set.

## Training procedure

### Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:
- learning_rate: 0.75e-05
- train_batch_size: 8
- eval_batch_size: 24
- seed: 22
- optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
- lr_scheduler_type: linear
- lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 22000
- training_steps: 52500 (Initially set to 76000 steps)
- mixed_precision_training: True

## Acknowledgement
This work was done at Speech Lab, IITM. The compute resources for this work were funded by "Bhashini: National Language translation Mission" project of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.