Mizo Automatic Speech Recognition

This model is a fine-tuned version of facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-2b on the MiZonal v1.0 dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:

• Loss: 0.1318
• Wer: 0.1582

Citation

BibTeX entry and citation info:

@article{10.1145/3746063,
author = {Bawitlung, Andrew and Dash, Sandeep Kumar and Pattanayak, Radha Mohan},
title = {Mizo Automatic Speech Recognition: Leveraging Wav2vec 2.0 and XLS-R for Enhanced Accuracy in Low-Resource Language Processing},
year = {2025},
issue_date = {July 2025},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
volume = {24},
number = {7},
issn = {2375-4699},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3746063},
doi = {10.1145/3746063},
journal = {ACM Trans. Asian Low-Resour. Lang. Inf. Process.},
month = jul,
articleno = {72},
numpages = {15},
}

Training and evaluation data

MiZonal v1.0.0

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

• learning_rate: 0.0003
• train_batch_size: 8
• eval_batch_size: 8
• seed: 49
• gradient_accumulation_steps: 8
• total_train_batch_size: 64
• optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
• lr_scheduler_type: linear
• lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 1000
• num_epochs: 28
• mixed_precision_training: Native AMP

Training results

Framework versions

• Transformers 4.37.2
• Pytorch 2.3.1+cu121
• Datasets 2.16.1
• Tokenizers 0.15.1