Africanwhisper

This is still a beta version for testing to uncover potential bugs.

This release updates the following features:
- Data processing using streaming method instead of batch.
- Translation and transcription options in Gradio demo UI.

This is still a beta version for testing inorder to uncover potential bugs.
This release updates the following features:

Data processing using streaming method instead of batch.
Translation and transcription options in Gradio demo UI.

African Whisper v0.2.1-beta - Unstable Release
This is the first release of African Whisper, a Python library for fast fine-tuning and API endpoint deployment of a Whisper model distribution specifically developed to accelerate Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) for African Languages.

This release is for testing to uncover potential bugs.

This release includes features such as:

- Full or PEFT optimized fine-tuning of any distribution of Whisper using any dataset from Mozilla's common-voice datasets.
- Evaluation of the training job using Weights and Biases.
- Saving the fine-tuned model to HuggingFace Hub.
- Trying out the fine-tuned model using Gradio UI.
- Deploying a REST API endpoint to get inference from the fine-tuned model.
- Containerizing the endpoint using Docker.