---
license: mit
language:
- et
base_model:
- openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo
pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition
library_name: transformers
---


## Introduction

This model is OpenAI Whisper large-v3-turbo, finetuned on 1400 hours of audio with manually created verbatim transcriptions from the TalTech Estonian Speech Dataset 1.0 (https://cs.taltech.ee/staff/tanel.alumae/data/est-pub-asr-data/).

## Usage

It's a finetuned vesion of Whisper large-v3-turbo and can be therefore used via Hugging Face 🤗 Transformers. To run the model, first install the Transformers
library. For this example, we'll also install 🤗 Accelerate to reduce the model loading time:

```bash
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade transformers accelerate
```

The model can be used with the [`pipeline`](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main_classes/pipelines#transformers.AutomaticSpeechRecognitionPipeline)
class to transcribe audios of arbitrary length:

```python
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq, AutoProcessor, pipeline
from datasets import load_dataset


device = "cuda:0" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
torch_dtype = torch.float16 if torch.cuda.is_available() else torch.float32

model_id = "TalTechNLP/whisper-large-v3-turbo-et-verbatim"

model = AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq.from_pretrained(
model_id, torch_dtype=torch_dtype, low_cpu_mem_usage=True, use_safetensors=True
)
model.to(device)

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)

pipe = pipeline(
"automatic-speech-recognition",
model=model,
tokenizer=processor.tokenizer,
feature_extractor=processor.feature_extractor,
torch_dtype=torch_dtype,
device=device,
)

audio = "demo/etteütlus2024.wav"

result = pipe(sample, generate_kwargs={"task": "transcribe", "language": "et"})
print(result)
```

There is a also a ct2 version of the model that can be used with tools that are based on `faster-whisper`, e.g. `whisper-ctranslate2` command line program, e.g.:

```
$ whisper-ctranslate2 --model_directory ct2 --language et --vad_filter True --threads 8 --output_dir demo demo/etteütlus2024.wav
Detected language 'Estonian' with probability 1.000000
[00:00.620 --> 00:08.820] Kas pole teps mitte kihvt, et Haridus- ja Teadusministeerium paikneb Tartus Munga tänaval?
[00:08.820 --> 00:23.420] Seal ülikooli peahoonest mõne kukesammu kaugusel tuleb pedagoogikaalased otsused langetada kevisse raiutud imposantsete kultuuriheeroste märksa pilgu all.
[00:23.420 --> 00:32.680] Peeter Põllu esimese haridusministri rühikas selg tuletab meelde koolmeistrite määravat osatähtsust ühiskonnas.
[00:32.680 --> 00:45.140] Ning üksi silmi teineteist jälgivad Kreutzwald ja Kalevipoeg kõrvu Oskar Lutsuliku kaine literaadi pilguga ei lase unustada Eesti vaimuilma alusväärtusi.
[00:45.140 --> 00:52.640] Vahest peaks valitsusegi Stenbocki majast rahvusülikooli akadeemilisse mõju välja kupattama.
[00:52.640 --> 01:05.860] Nii oleks võimukandjatel ehk mahti ilmavaate turgutamiseks linnaraamatukogust kübekene tarkust nõutada või Tartu Kunstimuuseumis kultustaieseid nautida.
[01:05.860 --> 01:17.500] Too piisatorni sarnane majamürakas võib tekitada muidugi äraspidise tunde, et Emajõe ja Ateenas on alalõpmata midagi viltu.
Transcription results written to 'demo' directory

```

## Citation

```
@inproceedings{alumae-etal-2023-automatic,
title = "Automatic Closed Captioning for {E}stonian Live Broadcasts",
author = {Alum{\"a}e, Tanel and
Kalda, Joonas and
Bode, K{\"u}lliki and
Kaitsa, Martin},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)",
month = may,
year = "2023",
address = "T{\'o}rshavn, Faroe Islands",
publisher = "University of Tartu Library",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.nodalida-1.49",
pages = "492--499"
}
```