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asr-whisper-large-v2-salt

Acholi(ach)ASR / Encoder-DecoderWhisper Large v2 (OpenAI)WhisperForConditionalGeneration
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Model Info

Language
Acholi (ach)
Architecture
WhisperForConditionalGeneration
Institution
Sunbird AI
Last Updated
12 May 2026

Intended Use Cases

ASR (WER on Ugandan languages)

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/Sunbird/asr-whisper-large-v2-salt
Fetch Timestamp
12 May 2026
Submitter
Sunbird AI

Full Record

21 of 25 fields stated

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Registry columns (17/18)

iso code
ach
Model Name
asr-whisper-large-v2-salt
Where is it hosted
HuggingFace
Link
https://huggingface.co/Sunbird/asr-whisper-large-v2-salt
Year
2023
Creator/Author(s)
Sunbird AI
Paper Reference
Owomugisha et al., AfricaNLP 2023
NLP Task
ASR / Encoder-Decoder
Architecture
WhisperForConditionalGenerationderivedHugging Face config: architectures / model_type (replaces the library name 'transformers', kept in `library`)
Base Model
Whisper Large v2 (OpenAI)
Fine-tuned?
Yes
License
CC-BY
Open Access
RestrictedderivedHugging Face: gated repository
Has Model Card
Yes
SOTA Tasks
ASR (WER on Ugandan languages)
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-05-12
Comment
Acholi token: ach = 50357

Readiness (LRS) (4/7)

model id
asr-whisper-large-v2-salt-ach
Model Type
ASR
Training Data Sources
SALT speech dataset
Benchmark Used
Not stated
Benchmark Score
Not stated
Benchmark Date
Not stated
Status
Activederivedupdated within 3 years

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation86%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
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