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Hebrew speech recognition model listen-windy-lingua-he

Open speech-to-text model published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.

Task: Speech-to-text (automatic speech recognition)
Language: Hebrew
Lineage: Whisper community fine-tune
Formats in the repo: safetensors
Hugging Face: WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-he
Last updated on HF: 2026-04-28

Quality

Not benchmarked by this site yet. Speech models have no published word-error rates here; any figures in the Hugging Face card were not re-measured by us.

From the model card: Replaces a previous build whose weights were incomplete (decoder layers 10-23 missing) and produced gibberish output. Now derived from `oridror/whisper-large-v3-turbo-hebrew-r1-myd-r1` (Whisper Large-v3 turbo Hebrew fine-tune). Verified post-upload at WER 24.2% / CER 11.5% / script-match 99% on 20-sample FLEURS he_il — GOOD tier. Tokenizer/preprocessor files filled in from `openai/whisper-large-v3` since the upstream fine-tune omits them.

How to run

Shell

pip install transformers torch huggingface_hub   # plus ffmpeg on your PATH to read audio files

Python

from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
from transformers import pipeline

# Weights live in the safetensors/ subfolder of the repository.
path = snapshot_download("WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-he", allow_patterns=["safetensors/*"])
asr = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model=f"{path}/safetensors")
print(asr("audio.wav")["text"])

Tested: Pattern run on 2026-10-01 against WindyWord/listen-windy-nano with transformers 4.57.6 and 5.18.0 on CPU, on a 16 kHz mono WAV. Not run on every model individually.

Licence and attribution

Licence: Apache-2.0 lineage under review
Upstream: oridror/whisper-large-v3-turbo-hebrew-r1-myd-r1 (model card text)
Upstream licence: unknown
Attribution: Based on oridror/whisper-large-v3-turbo-hebrew-r1-myd-r1, a community fine-tune of OpenAI Whisper. Upstream licence not stated. Lineage under review.

Lineage under review: this model was imported from a community Whisper fine-tune (oridror/whisper-large-v3-turbo-hebrew-r1-myd-r1). Some community fine-tunes carry non-commercial terms, so we cannot yet confirm the Apache-2.0 tag. Check before commercial use.

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NOTICE

This product uses the model WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-he
(https://huggingface.co/WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-he), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on oridror/whisper-large-v3-turbo-hebrew-r1-myd-r1, a community fine-tune of OpenAI Whisper. Upstream licence not stated. Lineage under review.
Imported by Windstorm Labs from an upstream community fine-tune; see the model card.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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