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Your Voice, Your Device, Your Language Challenge

Helping Africa
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Automatic Speech Recognition
Natural Language Processing
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Koleshjr
Multimedia university of kenya
Kiswahili ASR – Part 9: Is Whisper the Answer?
Platform · 19 Aug 2025, 19:52 · 2

Over the weekend, I discovered a Whisper baseline that performed surprisingly well — so in today’s stream we focused on testing multiple Whisper models.

The big question: Is Whisper actually the key to unlocking better scores in this competition? We now have code ready to test and compare Whisper baselines against our existing work. Results are interesting, but you’ll have to catch the replay (or the next stream) to see if Whisper really is the game changer! 👀

📺 Replay : https://youtu.be/FfTc-GrzqLc

📺past streams: https://www.youtube.com/@koleshjr

🎮 Watch live: https://www.twitch.tv/koleshjr/schedule

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ML_Wizzard
Nasarawa State University

Whisper is the answer @Koleshjr.

21 Sep 2025, 21:48
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Koleshjr
Multimedia university of kenya

Congratulations @ML_Wizzard 👏👏👏 i cannot wait to learn from your solution !! Indeed even my best sub was a whisper model!