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Whisper-small Waxal Fula

Fula(ful)ASR / Encoder-DecoderWhisper-smallWhisperForConditionalGeneration
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Model Info

Language
Fula (ful)
Architecture
WhisperForConditionalGeneration
Institution
Waxal benchmarking
Last Updated
18 Jun 2026

Intended Use Cases

ASR / Encoder-Decoder

License & Access

SPDX identifierApache

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Fetch Timestamp
18 Jun 2026
Submitter
Waxal benchmarking

Full Record

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Registry columns (16/18)

iso code
ful
Model Name
Whisper-small Waxal Fula
Where is it hosted
HuggingFace
Link
https://huggingface.co/waxal-benchmarking/whisper-small-waxal-ful
Year
2026
Creator/Author(s)
Waxal benchmarking
Paper Reference
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02375
NLP Task
ASR / Encoder-Decoder
Architecture
WhisperForConditionalGenerationderivedHugging Face config: architectures / model_type (replaces the library name 'transformers', kept in `library`)
Base Model
Whisper-small
Fine-tuned?
Yes
License
Apache
Open Access
Open
Has Model Card
Yes
SOTA Tasks
Not stated
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-06-18
Comment
A Whisper speech recognition model fine-tuned for Fula; a tiny variant also exists.

Readiness (LRS) (4/7)

model id
whisper-small-waxal-fula-ful
Model Type
ASR
Training Data Sources
Waxal Fula speech
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%
Documentation71%
Recency100%

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