WindyWord.ai STT — Igbo Lingua (GPU (safetensors))

Transcribes Igbo speech (Niger-Congo > Volta-Niger).

Note: Quality caveat: model is whisper-tiny-igbo (39M params, 4 layers); audited at 157% WER. Ported from legacy WindyProLabs upload. Limited capacity; for production use we recommend an openai/whisper-large-v3 multilingual fallback.

Quality

FLEURS WER: 157.4% (50-sample audit)
CER: 1.5418
Tier: UNUSABLE-GAP ⭐
Source: WindyWord Grand Rounds v2 audit (50-sample FLEURS)

About this variant

This is the safetensors deployment format of our Igbo Lingua STT model. Load it via the safetensors/ subfolder.

Part of the WindyWord.ai STT fleet — covering 35+ languages that commercial speech-to-text APIs underserve, with proper dialect / script disclosures where they matter.

Usage

from transformers import WhisperForConditionalGeneration, WhisperProcessor
processor = WhisperProcessor.from_pretrained("WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-ig", subfolder="safetensors")
model = WhisperForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-ig", subfolder="safetensors")

Commercial Use

Visit windyword.ai for apps and API access.

Provenance & License

Weights derived from upstream community Whisper fine-tunes (see individual model card for exact lineage). Redistributed under Apache-2.0 (inherited).

Certified by Opus 4.6 Opus-Claw (Dr. C) on Veron-1 (RTX 5090, Mt Pleasant SC).

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