
# whisper-large-maltese-8k-steps-64h

The "whisper-large-maltese-8k-steps-64h" is an acoustic model suitable for Automatic Speech Recognition in Maltese. It is the result of fine-tuning the model "openai/whisper-large" with around 64 hours of Maltese data developed by the MASRI Project at the University of Malta between 2019 and 2021. Most of the data is available at the the MASRI Project homepage https://www.um.edu.mt/projects/masri/.

The specific list of corpora used to fine-tune the model is:

- MASRI-HEADSET v2 (6h39m)
- MASRI-Farfield (9h37m)
- MASRI-Booths (2h27m)
- MASRI-MEP (1h17m)
- MASRI-COMVO (7h29m)
- MASRI-TUBE (13h17m)
- MASRI-MERLIN (25h18m) *Not available at the MASRI Project homepage
	
The fine-tuning process was perform during March (2023) in the servers of the Language and Voice Lab (https://lvl.ru.is/) at Reykjavík University (Iceland) by Carlos Daniel Hernández Mena.

# Evaluation
```python
import torch
from transformers import WhisperForConditionalGeneration, WhisperProcessor

#Load the processor and model.
MODEL_NAME="carlosdanielhernandezmena/whisper-large-maltese-8k-steps-64h"
processor = WhisperProcessor.from_pretrained(MODEL_NAME)
model = WhisperForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(MODEL_NAME).to("cuda")

#Load the dataset
from datasets import load_dataset, load_metric, Audio
ds=load_dataset("MLRS/masri_test",split='test')

#Downsample to 16kHz
ds = ds.cast_column("audio", Audio(sampling_rate=16_000))

#Process the dataset
def map_to_pred(batch):
	audio = batch["audio"]
	input_features = processor(audio["array"], sampling_rate=audio["sampling_rate"], return_tensors="pt").input_features
	batch["reference"] = processor.tokenizer._normalize(batch['normalized_text'])

	with torch.no_grad():
		predicted_ids = model.generate(input_features.to("cuda"))[0]
	
	transcription = processor.decode(predicted_ids)
	batch["prediction"] = processor.tokenizer._normalize(transcription)
	
	return batch
	
#Do the evaluation
result = ds.map(map_to_pred)

#Compute the overall WER now.
from evaluate import load

wer = load("wer")
WER=100 * wer.compute(references=result["reference"], predictions=result["prediction"])
print(WER)
```
**Test Result**: 18.97354497354497

# BibTeX entry and citation info
*When publishing results based on these models please refer to:*
```bibtex
@misc{mena2023whisperlargemaltese,
      title={Acoustic Model in Maltese: whisper-large-maltese-8k-steps-64h.}, 
      author={Hernandez Mena, Carlos Daniel},
      url={https://huggingface.co/carlosdanielhernandezmena/whisper-large-maltese-8k-steps-64h},
      year={2023}
}
```

# Acknowledgements

The MASRI Project is funded by the University of Malta Research Fund Awards. We want to thank to Merlin Publishers (Malta) for provinding the audiobooks used to create the MASRI-MERLIN Corpus.

Thanks to Jón Guðnason, head of the Language and Voice Lab for providing computational power to make this model possible. We also want to thank to the "Language Technology Programme for Icelandic 2019-2023" which is managed and coordinated by Almannarómur, and it is funded by the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

Special thanks to Björn Ingi Stefánsson for setting up the configuration of the server where this model was trained.
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# whisper-large-maltese-8k-steps-64h

The "whisper-large-maltese-8k-steps-64h" is an acoustic model suitable for Automatic Speech Recognition in Maltese. It is the result of fine-tuning the model "openai/whisper-large" with around 64 hours of Maltese data developed by the MASRI Project at the University of Malta between 2019 and 2021. Most of the data is available at the the MASRI Project homepage URL

The specific list of corpora used to fine-tune the model is:

- MASRI-HEADSET v2 (6h39m)
- MASRI-Farfield (9h37m)
- MASRI-Booths (2h27m)
- MASRI-MEP (1h17m)
- MASRI-COMVO (7h29m)
- MASRI-TUBE (13h17m)
- MASRI-MERLIN (25h18m) *Not available at the MASRI Project homepage
	
The fine-tuning process was perform during March (2023) in the servers of the Language and Voice Lab (URL at Reykjavík University (Iceland) by Carlos Daniel Hernández Mena.

# Evaluation

Test Result: 18.97354497354497

# BibTeX entry and citation info
*When publishing results based on these models please refer to:*


# Acknowledgements

The MASRI Project is funded by the University of Malta Research Fund Awards. We want to thank to Merlin Publishers (Malta) for provinding the audiobooks used to create the MASRI-MERLIN Corpus.

Thanks to Jón Guðnason, head of the Language and Voice Lab for providing computational power to make this model possible. We also want to thank to the "Language Technology Programme for Icelandic 2019-2023" which is managed and coordinated by Almannarómur, and it is funded by the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

Special thanks to Björn Ingi Stefánsson for setting up the configuration of the server where this model was trained.
# whisper-large-maltese-8k-steps-64h

The "whisper-large-maltese-8k-steps-64h" is an acoustic model suitable for Automatic Speech Recognition in Maltese. It is the result of fine-tuning the model "openai/whisper-large" with around 64 hours of Maltese data developed by the MASRI Project at the University of Malta between 2019 and 2021. Most of the data is available at the the MASRI Project homepage URL

The specific list of corpora used to fine-tune the model is:

- MASRI-HEADSET v2 (6h39m)
- MASRI-Farfield (9h37m)
- MASRI-Booths (2h27m)
- MASRI-MEP (1h17m)
- MASRI-COMVO (7h29m)
- MASRI-TUBE (13h17m)
- MASRI-MERLIN (25h18m) *Not available at the MASRI Project homepage
	
The fine-tuning process was perform during March (2023) in the servers of the Language and Voice Lab (URL at Reykjavík University (Iceland) by Carlos Daniel Hernández Mena. # Evaluation

Test Result: 18.97354497354497 # BibTeX entry and citation info
*When publishing results based on these models please refer to:* # Acknowledgements

The MASRI Project is funded by the University of Malta Research Fund Awards. We want to thank to Merlin Publishers (Malta) for provinding the audiobooks used to create the MASRI-MERLIN Corpus.

Thanks to Jón Guðnason, head of the Language and Voice Lab for providing computational power to make this model possible. We also want to thank to the "Language Technology Programme for Icelandic 2019-2023" which is managed and coordinated by Almannarómur, and it is funded by the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

Special thanks to Björn Ingi Stefánsson for setting up the configuration of the server where this model was trained.
TAGS
#transformers #pytorch #whisper #automatic-speech-recognition #audio #maltese #whisper-large #whisper-large-v1 #masri-project #malta #university-of-malta #mt #dataset-common_voice #license-cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 #model-index #endpoints_compatible #region-us 
 # whisper-large-maltese-8k-steps-64h

The "whisper-large-maltese-8k-steps-64h" is an acoustic model suitable for Automatic Speech Recognition in Maltese. It is the result of fine-tuning the model "openai/whisper-large" with around 64 hours of Maltese data developed by the MASRI Project at the University of Malta between 2019 and 2021. Most of the data is available at the the MASRI Project homepage URL

The specific list of corpora used to fine-tune the model is:

- MASRI-HEADSET v2 (6h39m)
- MASRI-Farfield (9h37m)
- MASRI-Booths (2h27m)
- MASRI-MEP (1h17m)
- MASRI-COMVO (7h29m)
- MASRI-TUBE (13h17m)
- MASRI-MERLIN (25h18m) *Not available at the MASRI Project homepage
	
The fine-tuning process was perform during March (2023) in the servers of the Language and Voice Lab (URL at Reykjavík University (Iceland) by Carlos Daniel Hernández Mena. # Evaluation

Test Result: 18.97354497354497 # BibTeX entry and citation info
*When publishing results based on these models please refer to:* # Acknowledgements

The MASRI Project is funded by the University of Malta Research Fund Awards. We want to thank to Merlin Publishers (Malta) for provinding the audiobooks used to create the MASRI-MERLIN Corpus.

Thanks to Jón Guðnason, head of the Language and Voice Lab for providing computational power to make this model possible. We also want to thank to the "Language Technology Programme for Icelandic 2019-2023" which is managed and coordinated by Almannarómur, and it is funded by the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

Special thanks to Björn Ingi Stefánsson for setting up the configuration of the server where this model was trained.
TAGS
#transformers #pytorch #whisper #automatic-speech-recognition #audio #maltese #whisper-large #whisper-large-v1 #masri-project #malta #university-of-malta #mt #dataset-common_voice #license-cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 #model-index #endpoints_compatible #region-us 
# whisper-large-maltese-8k-steps-64h

The "whisper-large-maltese-8k-steps-64h" is an acoustic model suitable for Automatic Speech Recognition in Maltese. It is the result of fine-tuning the model "openai/whisper-large" with around 64 hours of Maltese data developed by the MASRI Project at the University of Malta between 2019 and 2021. Most of the data is available at the the MASRI Project homepage URL

The specific list of corpora used to fine-tune the model is:

- MASRI-HEADSET v2 (6h39m)
- MASRI-Farfield (9h37m)
- MASRI-Booths (2h27m)
- MASRI-MEP (1h17m)
- MASRI-COMVO (7h29m)
- MASRI-TUBE (13h17m)
- MASRI-MERLIN (25h18m) *Not available at the MASRI Project homepage
	
The fine-tuning process was perform during March (2023) in the servers of the Language and Voice Lab (URL at Reykjavík University (Iceland) by Carlos Daniel Hernández Mena.# Evaluation

Test Result: 18.97354497354497# BibTeX entry and citation info
*When publishing results based on these models please refer to:*# Acknowledgements

The MASRI Project is funded by the University of Malta Research Fund Awards. We want to thank to Merlin Publishers (Malta) for provinding the audiobooks used to create the MASRI-MERLIN Corpus.

Thanks to Jón Guðnason, head of the Language and Voice Lab for providing computational power to make this model possible. We also want to thank to the "Language Technology Programme for Icelandic 2019-2023" which is managed and coordinated by Almannarómur, and it is funded by the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

Special thanks to Björn Ingi Stefánsson for setting up the configuration of the server where this model was trained.