OpenAI Whisper’s amazing power to do fine-tuning demonstrated on Malayalam

Talk page for my Oral Presentation session presented @ Summit 23, IIIT Kottayam

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Kurian Benoy

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Sunday, June 11, 2023

Questions received

  1. How can you improve the Malayalam ASR model further? What are techniques which you can do next?
  2. How are metrics like WER and CER?
  3. Can you explain how you calculated WER, CER, time taken and model parameter size for your code?

Update (15th June, 2023)

Excited to share that I won 2nd place in Oral Presentation category and won a cash prize of Rs 750.

Thanks to

My MTech project guide Dr Manu Madhavan for his feedbacks for my Oral presentation slides. I had incorporated his suggestions to make things more clearer in oral presentation. Nihla who is doing her PHD encouraged me to participate in this Summit and gave me the contact of another PHD scholar named Akarsh who told me what is the format Oral Presentation.