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burakaydinofficial
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openai/whisper-small
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| Lang | stock whisper-small | this model | metric |
|---|---|---|---|
| en | 11.7 | 12.2 | WER % |
| de | 15.4 | 15.0 | WER % |
| es | 12.1 | 9.7 | WER % |
| fr | 22.9 | 19.2 | WER % |
| ru | 17.3 | 13.6 | WER % |
| tr | 25.2 | 20.9 | WER % |
| cy | 74.2 | 60.7 | WER % |
| ar | 48.4 | 35.6 | WER % |
| th | 19.7 | 11.3 | CER % |
| zh | 34.4 | 14.9 | CER % |
| ka | 178.0 | 86.2 | WER % (unusable in both — model-class floor) |
Better than stock on 10 of 11 languages (−0.5 on en). Encoder frozen during fine-tuning (the multilingual encoder is preserved); 15,000 steps, warmup+cosine, dev-checkpoint-selected; bf16.
Evaluated on crowdsourced consumer-microphone recordings with real environmental noise — traffic, room reverb, variable devices — CommonVoice's native conditions, not studio audio. The numbers above already include that heterogeneity. Not yet benchmarked: far-field, telephony (8 kHz), overlapping speech.
(Note: this is the unconverted control — it has no MHA→MLA conversion, so "compression cost" does not apply to it. The SNR-robustness-of-compression result lives on the MLA cards, where it is measured as MLA-vs-this-control.)