---
language:
  - sw
license: apache-2.0
tags:
  - hf-asr-leaderboard
  - generated_from_trainer
datasets:
  - mozilla-foundation/common_voice_11_0
metrics:
  - wer
model-index:
  - name: whisper-small-sw
    results:
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Common Voice 11.0
          type: mozilla-foundation/common_voice_11_0
          config: sw
          split: test
          args: 'config: sw, split: test'
        metrics:
          - name: Wer
            type: wer
            value: 27.84
---
## Model
* Name: Whisper Small Swahili
* Description: Whisper weights for speech-to-text task, fine-tuned and evaluated on normalized data.
* Performance: **27.84 WER**

## Weights
* Date of release: 12.20.2022
* Size:
* License: MIT

## Usage
To use these weights in HuggingFace's `transformers` library, you can do the following:
```python
from transformers import WhisperForConditionalGeneration

model = WhisperForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("hedronstone/whisper-small-sw")
```