A monolingual automatic speech recognition model for
Irish
, fine-tuned from
openai/whisper-large-v3
. Part of
BuzzASR
,
a suite of 102 language-specialized ASR models (Findings of EMNLP 2026).
This model uses
simple fine-tuning (Whisper's tokenizer, ASR fine-tuning only)
.
🏆
State-of-the-art (open-source).
On the combined FLEURS + Common Voice test set, this model
achieves the lowest CER of every open system we compare against: Whisper-large-v3, Omnilingual 1B/7B, MMS, Qwen3-ASR, and Cohere Transcribe.
Results (normalized CER / WER, %)
Test set
CER
WER
Whisper-large-v3 (zero-shot) CER
FLEURS
27.26
53.61
87.88
Common Voice 25
4.55
9.47
67.16
Combined
15.7
31.13
77.11
~4.9x CER reduction over Whisper zero-shot on the combined test set.
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