language: ca
datasets:
- projecte-aina/3catparla_asr
- projecte-aina/parlament_parla_v3
- projecte-aina/corts_valencianes_asr_a
- projecte-aina/commonvoice_benchmark_catalan_accents
tags:
- audio
- automatic-speech-recognition
- whisper-large-v3
- barcelona-supercomputing-center
license: apache-2.0
model-index:
- name: Whisper_bsc_large_v3_cat
results:
- task:
name: Automatic Speech Recognition
type: automatic-speech-recognition
dataset:
name: 3CatParla (Test)
type: projecte-aina/3catparla_asr
split: test
args:
language: ca
metrics:
- name: WER
type: wer
value: 4.801
- task:
name: Automatic Speech Recognition
type: automatic-speech-recognition
dataset:
name: CV Benchmark Catalan Accents (Balearic fem)
type: projecte-aina/commonvoice_benchmark_catalan_accents
split: Balearic female
args:
language: ca
metrics:
- name: WER
type: wer
value: 5.314
- task:
name: Automatic Speech Recognition
type: automatic-speech-recognition
dataset:
name: CV Benchmark Catalan Accents (Balearic male)
type: projecte-aina/commonvoice_benchmark_catalan_accents
split: Balearic male
args:
language: ca
metrics:
- name: WER
type: wer
value: 4.31
- task:
name: Automatic Speech Recognition
type: automatic-speech-recognition
dataset:
name: CV Benchmark Catalan Accents (Central fem)
type: projecte-aina/commonvoice_benchmark_catalan_accents
split: Central female
args:
language: ca
metrics:
- name: WER
type: wer
value: 3.294
- task:
name: Automatic Speech Recognition
type: automatic-speech-recognition
dataset:
name: CV Benchmark Catalan Accents (Central male)
type: projecte-aina/commonvoice_benchmark_catalan_accents
split: Central male
args:
language: ca
metrics:
- name: WER
type: wer
value: 3.602
- task:
name: Automatic Speech Recognition
type: automatic-speech-recognition
dataset:
name: CV Benchmark Catalan Accents (Northern fem)
type: projecte-aina/commonvoice_benchmark_catalan_accents
split: Northern female
args:
language: ca
metrics:
- name: WER
type: wer
value: 3.189
- task:
name: Automatic Speech Recognition
type: automatic-speech-recognition
dataset:
name: CV Benchmark Catalan Accents (Northern male)
type: projecte-aina/commonvoice_benchmark_catalan_accents
split: Northern male
args:
language: ca
metrics:
- name: WER
type: wer
value: 3.378
- task:
name: Automatic Speech Recognition
type: automatic-speech-recognition
dataset:
name: CV Benchmark Catalan Accents (Northwestern fem)
type: projecte-aina/commonvoice_benchmark_catalan_accents
split: Northwestern female
args:
language: ca
metrics:
- name: WER
type: wer
value: 3.217
- task:
name: Automatic Speech Recognition
type: automatic-speech-recognition
dataset:
name: CV Benchmark Catalan Accents (Northwestern male)
type: projecte-aina/commonvoice_benchmark_catalan_accents
split: Northwestern male
args:
language: ca
metrics:
- name: WER
type: wer
value: 3.949
- task:
name: Automatic Speech Recognition
type: automatic-speech-recognition
dataset:
name: CV Benchmark Catalan Accents (Valencian fem)
type: projecte-aina/commonvoice_benchmark_catalan_accents
split: Valencian female
args:
language: ca
metrics:
- name: WER
type: wer
value: 3.581
- task:
name: Automatic Speech Recognition
type: automatic-speech-recognition
dataset:
name: CV Benchmark Catalan Accents (Valencian male)
type: projecte-aina/commonvoice_benchmark_catalan_accents
split: Valencian male
args:
language: ca
metrics:
- name: WER
type: wer
value: 3.552
library_name: transformers
base_model:
- openai/whisper-large-v3
metrics:
- wer
Whisper_bsc_large_v3_cat
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Model Description
The "whisper-bsc-large-v3-cat" is an acoustic model suitable for Automatic Speech Recognition in Catalan. It is the result of finetuning the model "openai/whisper-large-v3" with 4700 hours of Catalan data released by the Projecte AINA from Barcelona, Spain.
Intended Uses and Limitations
This model can be used for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in Catalan. The model intends to transcribe Catalan audio files to plain text without punctuation.
Installation
To use this model, you may install datasets and transformers:
Create a virtual environment:
python -m venv /path/to/venv
Activate the environment:
source /path/to/venv/bin/activate
Install the modules:
pip install datasets transformers
For Inference
To transcribe audio in Catalan using this model, you can follow this example:
#Install Prerequisites
pip install torch
pip install datasets
pip install 'transformers[torch]'
pip install evaluate
pip install jiwer
#This code works with GPU
#Notice that: load_metric is no longer part of datasets.
#You have to remove it and use evaluate's load instead.
#(Note from November 2024)
import torch
from transformers import WhisperForConditionalGeneration, WhisperProcessor
#Load the processor and model.
MODEL_NAME="BSC-LT/whisper-bsc-large-v3-cat"
processor = WhisperProcessor.from_pretrained(MODEL_NAME)
model = WhisperForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(MODEL_NAME).to("cuda")
#Load the dataset
from datasets import load_dataset, load_metric, Audio
ds=load_dataset("projecte-aina/parlament_parla",split='test')
#Downsample to 16 kHz
ds = ds.cast_column("audio", Audio(sampling_rate=16_000))
#Process the dataset
def map_to_pred(batch):
audio = batch["audio"]
input_features = processor(audio["array"], sampling_rate=audio["sampling_rate"], return_tensors="pt").input_features
batch["reference"] = processor.tokenizer._normalize(batch['normalized_text'])
with torch.no_grad():
predicted_ids = model.generate(input_features.to("cuda"))[0]
transcription = processor.decode(predicted_ids)
batch["prediction"] = processor.tokenizer._normalize(transcription)
return batch
#Do the evaluation
result = ds.map(map_to_pred)
#Compute the overall WER now.
from evaluate import load
wer = load("wer")
WER=100 * wer.compute(references=result["reference"], predictions=result["prediction"])
print(WER)
Training Details
Training data
The specific datasets used to create the model are:
- 3CatParla. (Soon to be published)
- commonvoice_benchmark_catalan_accents
- corts_valencianes (Only the anonymized version of the dataset is public. We trained the model with the non-anonymized version.)
- parlament_parla_v3 (Only the anonymized version of the dataset is public. We trained the model with the non-anonymized version.)
- IB3 (Soon to be published)
Training procedure
This model is the result of fine-tuning the model "openai/whisper-large-v3" by following this tutorial provided by Language Technologies Laboratory. (Soon to be published)
Training Hyperparameters
- language: Catalan
- hours of training audio: 4700
- learning rate: 1e-04
- sample rate: 16000
- train batch size: 16 (x4 GPUs)
- eval batch size: 16
- num_train_epochs: 10
- weight_decay: 1e-4
Citation
If this model contributes to your research, please cite the work:
@misc{takanori2025whisperbsclarge3cat,
title={Acoustic Model in Catalan: Whisper_bsc_large_v3_cat.},
author={Sanchez Shiromizu, Lucas Takanori; Hernandez Mena, Carlos Daniel; Messaoudi, Abir; España i Bonet, Cristina; Cortada Garcia, Marti},
organization={Barcelona Supercomputing Center},
url={https://huggingface.co/langtech-veu/whisper-bsc-large-v3-cat},
year={2025}
}
Additional Information
Author
The fine-tuning process was performed during Spring (2025) in the Language Technologies Laboratory of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center by Lucas Takanori Sanchez Shiromizu.
Contact
For further information, please send an email to langtech@bsc.es.
Copyright
Copyright(c) 2025 by Language Technologies Laboratory, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
License
Funding
This work is funded by the Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública - Funded by EU – NextGenerationEU within the framework of the project ILENIA with reference 2022/TL22/00215337.
The training of the model was possible thanks to the computing time provided by Barcelona Supercomputing Center through MareNostrum 5.