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AfriWoz / Afrikaans Whisper (community fine-tunes)

Afrikaans(afr)ASR / Encoder-DecoderWhisper (various sizes, OpenAI)
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Model Info

Language
Afrikaans (afr)
Architecture
Whisper (various sizes, OpenAI)
Institution
Various community contributors
Last Updated
12 May 2026

Intended Use Cases

ASR (Afrikaans WER on Common Voice)

License & Access

SPDX identifierVarious (CC-BY / MIT)

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/models?language=af&sort=downloads
Fetch Timestamp
12 May 2026
Submitter
Various community contributors

Full Record

17 of 25 fields stated

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Registry columns (15/18)

iso code
afr
Model Name
AfriWoz / Afrikaans Whisper (community fine-tunes)
Where is it hosted
HuggingFace
Link
https://huggingface.co/models?language=af&sort=downloads
Year
2022
Creator/Author(s)
Various community contributors
Paper Reference
Various
NLP Task
ASR / Encoder-Decoder
Architecture
Not stated
Base Model
Whisper (various sizes, OpenAI)
Fine-tuned?
Yes
License
Various (CC-BY / MIT)
Open Access
Open
Has Model Card
Not stated
SOTA Tasks
ASR (Afrikaans WER on Common Voice)
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-05-12
Comment
Multiple community Whisper fine-tunes; search HF with language=af

Readiness (LRS) (2/7)

model id
afriwoz-afrikaans-whisper-community-fine-tunes-afr
Model Type
Not stated
Training Data Sources
Mozilla Common Voice (Afrikaans), NCHLT
Benchmark Used
Not stated
Benchmark Score
Not stated
Benchmark Date
Not stated
Status
Not stated

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation80%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity
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