Gha Whisper Small Twi v6
Twi/Akan + English retention Whisper ASR for Ghana Health AI (v6-local-holdout). Recipe v6 mix; promote=False.
Model source
- Kind
- Text model
- File size
- 922 MB
- Base model
- teckedd/gha-whisper-small-twi-v6
- Version
- vmodel
- Updated
- Sep 26, 2026
- Downloads
- 268
- Source
- Hugging Face
Source description
teckedd/gha-whisper-small-twi-v6
Twi/Akan + English retention Whisper ASR for Ghana Health AI (v6-local-holdout). Recipe v6 mix; promote=False.
- Base model:
teckedd/gha-whisper-small-twi-v6 - Task:
automatic-speech-recognition - Languages:
tw,ak,en - Card generated: 2026-08-16 (UTC)
- Product: ghanahealth.serendepify.com
Not a medical device. Outputs support community health guidance only.
Metrics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
val_wer | 0.2970 |
val_cer | 0.1031 |
Training data
google/WaxalNLP (aka_asr)local (ghana-health-ai-recorder)fsicoli/common_voice_22_0 (tw)fsicoli/common_voice_22_0 (en)ghananlpcommunity/twi-speech-text-multispeaker-16k (default)
Intended use
- In-product ASR / TTS / chat for Twi (Akan) and English health conversations in Ghana.
- Research on low-resource Ghanaian language speech and health dialogue.
Out of scope
- Clinical diagnosis or autonomous medical decisions.
- Claiming near-native quality without reporting held-out WER/CER or human A/B scores.
How to load
from transformers import pipeline # or AutoModel + processor per task
# repo: teckedd/gha-whisper-small-twi-v6
Citation
If you use this checkpoint, please credit Ghana Health AI / Serendepify and the upstream base model authors plus any listed datasets.
Recipe
- Run:
v6-local-holdout - Freeze encoder:
False - LR / steps / batch:
5e-06/600/8x4 - Local recorder data:
True· manifest/root/gha_local_asr/manifest.train32.jsonl· weight0.08 - Baseline to beat (v6 serving, Waxal full test greedy):
0.3149 - Beats v6 greedy: False · v6 beam5 bar (
0.3044): False - Historical reference (Round 2 greedy, superseded):
0.3283
Serving
Production decode uses num_beams=5 in modal/asr_service.py.
Sources
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Sources
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Model artifacts
1 artifact
Model artifacts
1 artifactSource excerpts
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Source excerpts
2 excerpts--- language: - tw - ak - en license: apache-2.0 library_name: transformers pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition base_model: teckedd/gha-whisper-small-twi-v6 tags: - ak - akan - asr - en - ghana - ghana-health-ai - serendepify - speech-recognition - tw - twi - whisper datasets: - google/WaxalNLP - local - fsicoli/common_voice_22_0 - ghananlpcommunity/twi-speech-text-multispeaker-16k model-index: - name: gha-whisper-small-twi-v6 results: - task: type: automatic-speech-recognition dataset: type: google/WaxalNLP name: google/WaxalNLP (aka_asr) metrics: - type: val_wer value: 0.296972 name: VAL_WER - type: val_cer value: 0.103112 name: VAL_CER --- # teckedd/gha-whisper-small-twi-v6 Twi/Akan + English retention Whisper ASR for Ghana Health AI (`v6-local-holdout`). Recipe v6 mix; promote=False. - **Base model:** `teckedd/gha-whisper-small-twi-v6` - **Task:** `automatic-speech-recognition` - **Languages:** `tw`, `ak`, `en` - **Card generated:** 2026-08-16 (UTC) - **Product:** [ghanahealth.serendepify.com](https://ghanahealth.serendepify.com) > Not a medical device. Outputs support community health guidance only. ## Metrics | Metric | Value | |--------|-------| | `val_wer` | 0.2970 | | `val_cer` | 0.1031 | ## Training data - `google/WaxalNLP (aka_asr)` - `local (ghana-health-ai-recorder)` - `fsicoli/common_voice_22_0 (tw)` - `fsicoli/common_voice_22_0 (en)` - `ghananlpcommunity/twi-speech-text-multispeaker-16k (default)` ## Intended use - In-product ASR / TTS / chat for Twi (Akan) and English health conversations in Ghana. - Research on low-resource Ghanaian language speech and health dialogue. ## Out of scope - Clinical diagnosis or autonomous medical decisions. - Claiming near-native quality without reporting held-out WER/CER or human A/B scores. ## How to load ```python from transformers import pipeline # or AutoModel + processor per task # repo: teckedd/gha-whisper-small-twi-v6 ``` ## Citation If you use this checkpoint, please credit **Ghana Health AI / Serendepify** and the upstream base model authors plus any listed datasets. ## Recipe - Run: `v6-local-holdout` - Freeze encoder: `False` - LR / steps / batch: `5e-06` / `600` / `8x4` - Local recorder data: `True` · manifest `/root/gha_local_asr/manifest.train32.jsonl` · weight `0.08` - Baseline to beat (v6 serving, Waxal full test greedy): `0.3149` - Beats v6 greedy: **Fa...
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