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metadata
license: mit
datasets:
  - mozilla-foundation/common_voice_13_0
language:
  - ca
  - ta
  - th
tags:
  - automatic-speech-recognition
inference: false

About

Multilingual Distilwhisper allows for better ASR performance in target languages by adding lightweight CLSR modules on top of whisper-small. These modules are trained on a mix of cross-entropy (ASR) and knowledge distillation losses, where whisper-large-v2 is used as teacher.

Inference

Loader will be made available soon at https://github.com/naver

Citation

@inproceedings{ferraz2024distilwhisper,
  title={Multilingual DistilWhisper: Efficient Distillation of Multi-task Speech Models via Language-Specific Experts},
  author={Ferraz, Thomas Palmeira and Boito, Marcely Zanon and Brun, Caroline and Nikoulina, Vassilina},
  booktitle={ICASSP 2024-2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  year={2024},
  organization={IEEE}
}