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BanglaASR

Audio bangla-speech-processing Speech→text 1 build Open weights 16k dl/mo

BanglaASR is an open-weight audio or speech model from bangla-speech-processing. BanglaASR (FP32) weighs 483 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • BanglaASR is an automatic speech recognition model developed by bangla-speech-processing for transcribing Bangla audio.
  • It is a fine-tuned Whisper small variant with 242 million parameters, trained on approximately 400 hours of data from the Mozilla Common Voice dataset.
  • The model achieves a word error rate of 4.58% and is released under the MIT licence.

Summary of the bangla-speech-processing/BanglaASR model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bybangla-speech-processing
Released2023-06-22
Parameters242M
VRAM483 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for BanglaASR (FP32)

483 MBweights, file size
1.6 GBruntime overhead
CardOne streamMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What bangla-speech-processing says about BanglaASR

Read the model card

Bangla ASR model which was trained Bangla Mozilla Common Voice Dataset. This is Fine-tuning Whisper model using Bangla mozilla common voice dataset. For training this model used 40k training and 7k Validation of around 400 hours of data. We trained 12000 steps and get word error rate 4.58%. This model was whisper small[244 M] variant model.


import os
import librosa
import torch
import torchaudio
import numpy as np

from transformers import WhisperTokenizer
from transformers import WhisperProcessor
from transformers import WhisperFeatureExtractor
from transformers import WhisperForConditionalGeneration

device = torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')

mp3_path = "https://huggingface.co/bangla-speech-processing/BanglaASR/resolve/main/mp3/common_voice_bn_31515636.mp3"

model_path = "bangla-speech-processing/BanglaASR"

feature_extractor = WhisperFeatureExtractor.from_pretrained(model_path)
tokenizer = WhisperTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_path)
processor = WhisperProcessor.from_pretrained(model_path)
model = WhisperForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(model_path).to(device)

speech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(mp3_path, format="mp3")
speech_array = speech_array[0].numpy()
speech_array = librosa.resample(np.asarray(speech_array), orig_sr=sampling_rate, target_sr=16000)
input_features = feature_extractor(speech_array, sampling_rate=16000, return_tensors="pt").input_features

# batch = processor.feature_extractor.pad(input_features, return_tensors="pt")
predicted_ids = model.generate(inputs=input_features.to(device))[0]

transcription = processor.decode(predicted_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)

print(transcription)

Dataset

Used Mozilla common voice dataset around 400 hours data both training[40k] and validation[7k] mp3 samples. For more information about dataser please click here

Training Model Information

SizeLayersWidthHeadsParametersBangla-onlyTraining Status
tiny4384639 MXX
base6512874 MXX
small1276812244 M✓✓
medium24102416769 MXX
large321280201550 MXX

Evaluation

Word Error Rate 4.58 %

For More please check the github

@misc{BanglaASR ,
  title={Transformer Based Whisper Bangla ASR Model},
  author={Md Saiful Islam},
  howpublished={},
  year={2023}
}

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