A monolingual automatic speech recognition model for
Xhosa
, 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)
.
Results (normalized CER / WER, %)
Test set
CER
WER
Whisper-large-v3 (zero-shot) CER
FLEURS
11.5
51.81
40.12
Common Voice 25
0.83
6.67
37.19
Combined
11.48
51.72
39.61
~3.5x CER reduction over Whisper zero-shot on the combined test set.
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