Model details
Table with columns: Item, Value| Item | Value |
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| Task | Automatic speech recognition |
| Language | Sinhala (si) |
| Base model | openai/whisper-small |
| Architecture | Whisper / AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq |
| Parameters | Approximately 241.7M |
| Framework | Transformers |
| Status | Experimental prototype |
Intended use
Use this checkpoint for research, baseline comparison, testing, and further fine-tuning. It should not be treated as a validated production model until dataset documentation and held-out evaluation results are added.
Quick start
import torchfrom transformers import pipeline model_id = "kaan84/whisper-small-sinhala-proto"device = 0 if torch.cuda.is_available() else -1 transcriber = pipeline( task="automatic-speech-recognition", model=model_id, device=device,) result = transcriber( "sample.wav", generate_kwargs={"language": "si", "task": "transcribe"},)print(result["text"])
Training data
The model metadata identifies large-sinhala-asr-dataset as the training dataset. For reproducibility, document its repository link, source, license, total duration, speaker distribution, split strategy, audio sampling rate, transcript normalization, and quality-control process.
Training procedure
The checkpoint was generated using the Transformers Trainer workflow. Add the exact learning rate, batch size, gradient-accumulation steps, epoch or step count, warm-up schedule, precision, hardware, seed, and checkpoint-selection rule.
Evaluation
No validated evaluation results are declared in the current repository metadata.
Table with columns: Metric, Validation, Test| Metric | Validation | Test |
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| Word Error Rate (WER) | To be added | To be added |
| Character Error Rate (CER) | To be added | To be added |
Limitations and responsible use
- This is an experimental checkpoint and may generate unreliable transcripts.
- Results can degrade with background noise, code-switching, overlapping voices, or unfamiliar accents.
- Training-data coverage may not represent all Sinhala-speaking communities or domains.
- Review outputs manually before using them for consequential decisions or official records.
License
Apache License 2.0. Users must also comply with the licenses and terms of the base model and training data.
Version relationship
This repository should remain clearly labeled as a prototype. If kaan84/whisper-small-sinhala-v1 is the selected release model, direct general users to that repository and retain this checkpoint for comparison and reproducibility.