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UBC-NLP/Simba-M

Malagasy(mlg)ASRSimba (Whisper fine-tune)Encoder (Whisper-based)

Model Info

Language

Malagasy (mlg)

Architecture

Encoder (Whisper-based)

Institution

UBC-NLP (University of British Columbia NLP Group)

Last Updated

9 Jun 2026

Intended Use Cases

ASR (African languages incl. Malagasy)

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

9 Jun 2026

Submitter

UBC-NLP (University of British Columbia NLP Group)

Full Record

21 of 25 fields stated

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Registry columns (17/18)

iso code: mlg
Model Name: UBC-NLP/Simba-M
Where is it hosted: HuggingFace
Link: https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/Simba-M
Year: 2025
Creator/Author(s): UBC-NLP (University of British Columbia NLP Group)
Paper Reference: UBC-NLP (2025). Simba: Multilingual African ASR/TTS Models. HuggingFace.
NLP Task: ASR
Architecture: Encoder (Whisper-based)
Base Model: Simba (Whisper fine-tune)
Fine-tuned?: Yes
License: cc-by-4.0
Open Access: Open
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: ASR (African languages incl. Malagasy)
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-06-09
Comment: Malagasy (mlg) included in Simba-M multilingual African ASR model from UBC-NLP. Part of Simba family (Simba-S, Simba-W, Simba-X, Simba-H, Simba-M).

Readiness (LRS) (4/7)

model id: ubc-nlp-simba-m-mlg
Model Type: ASR
Training Data Sources: SimbaBench multilingual African corpus
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

Inclusivity

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