badrex/w2v-bert-2.0-sidama-asr

Automatic Speech Recognition for Sidama 🇪🇹

🍇 Model Description

This is a Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model for Sidama or Sidaamu Afoo, an Afroasiatic language that is native to Ethiopia. It is fine‑tuned from Wav2Vec2‑BERT 2.0 using the Ethio speech corpus.

• Developed by: Badr al-Absi
• Model type: Speech Recognition (ASR)
• Languages: Sidama
• License: CC-BY-4.0
• Finetuned from: facebook/w2v-bert-2.0

🎧 Direct Use

from transformers import Wav2Vec2BertProcessor, Wav2Vec2BertForCTC
import torchaudio, torch

processor = Wav2Vec2BertProcessor.from_pretrained("badrex/w2v-bert-2.0-sidama-asr")
model = Wav2Vec2BertForCTC.from_pretrained("badrex/w2v-bert-2.0-sidama-asr")

audio, sr = torchaudio.load("audio.wav")
inputs = processor(audio.squeeze(), sampling_rate=sr, return_tensors="pt")

with torch.no_grad():
    logits = model(**inputs).logits

pred_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
transcription = processor.batch_decode(pred_ids)[0]

print(transcription)

🔧 Downstream Use

• Voice assistants
• Accessibility tools
• Research baselines

🚫 Out‑of‑Scope Use

• Other languages besides Sidama
• High‑stakes deployments without human review
• Noisy audio without further tuning

⚠️ Risks & Limitations

Performance varies with accents, dialects, and recording quality.

📌 Citation

@misc{w2v_bert_ethiopian_asr,
  author = {Badr M. Abdullah},
  title = {Fine-tuning Wav2Vec2-BERT 2.0 for Ethiopian ASR},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/badrex/w2v-bert-2.0-sidama-asr}
}