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Whisper model fine-tuned for robust Assamese speech recognition

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Researchers have developed a fine-tuned version of the Whisper model to improve Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for the Assamese language. The fine-tuned model, trained on the Mozilla Common Voice 24.0-Assamese corpus and optimized for resource-constrained environments using Tesla 4 GPUs, significantly outperformed the zero-shot baseline. The new system achieved substantial reductions in Word Error Rate (WER), Character Error Rate (CER), Match Error Rate (MER), and Word Infomation Loss (WIL), alongside notable improvements in BLEU and METEOR scores for semantic evaluation. AI

IMPACT Improves accessibility of speech technology for low-resource languages, potentially enabling new applications.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new method for improving speech recognition for a low-resource language using a fine-tuned existing model. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Whisper model fine-tuned for robust Assamese speech recognition

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Ganapati Das, Dwipen Laskar, Hasin Afzal Ahmed, Sanjib Kr Kalita, Kshirod Sarmah, Hem Chandra Das, Manjula Kalita ·

    Robust Assamese Speech Recognition through Controlled Fine-Tuning of Whisper Models

    arXiv:2607.17164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for morphologically rich, low-resource languages such as Assamese is challenging due to insufficient annotated speech data. The pretrained Whisper model performs poorly on Assamese speec…

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