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Chichewa speech-to-text research

Adapting speech recognition models for local language data.

Project overview

Work dating from 2022 combines speech dataset preparation, transcript normalization, model adaptation, training and evaluation, including fine-tuning Whisper large-v3. Earlier public models and code are credited to Dunstan Matekenya.

Status, limitations and credit

The public releases are research resources, not claims of production readiness or verified accuracy for every use case.

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