PhoWhisper: Automatic Speech Recognition for Vietnamese

We introduce PhoWhisper in five versions for Vietnamese automatic speech recognition. PhoWhisper's robustness is achieved through fine-tuning the multilingual Whisper on an 844-hour dataset that encompasses diverse Vietnamese accents. Our experimental study demonstrates state-of-the-art performances of PhoWhisper on benchmark Vietnamese ASR datasets. Please cite our PhoWhisper paper when it is used to help produce published results or is incorporated into other software:

@inproceedings{PhoWhisper,
  title     = {{PhoWhisper: Automatic Speech Recognition for Vietnamese}},
  author    = {Thanh-Thien Le and Linh The Nguyen and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ICLR 2024 Tiny Papers track},
  year      = {2024}
}

Model download & WER results

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Example usage with transformers

from transformers import pipeline
transcriber = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model="vinai/PhoWhisper-small")
output = transcriber(path_to_audio_with_sampling_rate_16kHz)['text']