Finetuned openai/whisper-small on 99 Telugu training audio samples from ./cv-corpus-26.0-2026-06-12/te.

This model was created from the Mozilla.ai Blueprint: speech-to-text-finetune.

Evaluation results on 93 audio samples of Telugu:

Baseline model (before finetuning) on Telugu

• Word Error Rate (Normalized): 211.709
• Word Error Rate (Orthographic): 197.708
• Character Error Rate (Normalized): 174.02
• Character Error Rate (Orthographic): 229.888
• Loss: 2.799

Finetuned model (after finetuning) on Telugu

• Word Error Rate (Normalized): 77.809
• Word Error Rate (Orthographic): 102.006
• Character Error Rate (Normalized): 47.658
• Character Error Rate (Orthographic): 64.089
• Loss: 1.078