unilux/whisper-small-v1-luxembourgish
Model Card
🧠 Model Details
- Model name: whisper-small-v1-luxembourgish
- Organization: University of Luxembourg — Department of Humanities
- Project: Luxembourgish Automatic Speech Recognition (LuxASR)
- Type: Speech-to-Text (ASR)
- Language: Luxembourgish (
lb) - Architecture: Whisper (Small)
- Model size: ~244M parameters
- License: Open Model, Data & Weights (open-mdw)
This model is part of the LuxASR open model family for Luxembourgish speech recognition. Fine-tuned on Luxembourgish audio–text pairs (≈150+ hours total initiative scale).
The tiny, base, small, and medium models are open-sourced; the larger flagship LuxASR model, used in the webservice, the API and the iOS and Android apps, remains closed-source.
🚀 Intended Use
- Transcribe Luxembourgish speech into text.
- Research and development of Luxembourgish ASR.
- Accessibility and media transcription.
⚙️ Usage Example
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model="unilux/whisper-small-v1-luxembourgish")
result = pipe("example.wav")
print(result["text"])
🧡 Acknowledgements
Developed by the LuxASR team, University of Luxembourg.
See luxasr.uni.lu for project details.