MODELHugging Face

5/5

Simba-M

Chewa(nya)automatic-speech-recognitionWav2Vec2ForCTC

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Model Info

Language

Chewa (nya)

Architecture

Wav2Vec2ForCTC

Institution

UBC-NLP

Last Updated

27 Oct 2026

Intended Use Cases

automatic-speech-recognition

License & Access

SPDX identifiercc-by-4.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/Simba-M

Fetch Timestamp

27 Oct 2026

Submitter

UBC-NLP

Full Record

16 of 25 fields stated

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Registry columns (12/18)

iso code: nya
Model Name: Simba-M
Where is it hosted: Hugging Face
Link: https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/Simba-M
Year: 2025
Creator/Author(s): UBC-NLP
Paper Reference: Not stated
NLP Task: automatic-speech-recognition
Architecture: Wav2Vec2ForCTCderivedHugging Face config: architectures / model_type (replaces the library name 'transformers', kept in `library`)
Base Model: Not stated
Fine-tuned?: Not stated
License: cc-by-4.0
Open Access: Open
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: Not stated
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-10-27
Comment: Not stated

Readiness (LRS) (4/7)

model id: simba-m-nya
Model Type: ASR
Training Data Sources: UBC-NLP/SimbaBenchderivedHugging Face card: datasets
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%

Documentation85%

Recency100%

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