Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda
Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda is an automatic speech recognition model fine-tuned from OpenAI's Whisper-small on the Common Voice Kinyarwanda dataset, achieving about 24 percent word error rate. It transcribes Kinyarwanda audio into text for speech applications. It was built by Mbaza NLP, part of the Digital Umuganda voice-technology ecosystem in Rwanda.
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- AI Resources
- Pricing
- Open weights
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- 馃嚪馃嚰 Rwanda
- Last verified
- 5 Jul 2026
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