# bofenghuang/whisper-large-v3-french

Model from Hugging Face for automatic speech recognition: bofenghuang/whisper-large-v3-french · transformers

## Facts

- Type: LLM
- Task: automatic-speech-recognition
- Framework: transformers
- License: mit — Permissive open license: commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted. (https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html)
- Source: https://huggingface.co/bofenghuang/whisper-large-v3-french
- Hosting: unknown (no download location recorded)
- Files: 18 listed, none hosted here
- File counts: "listed" is every file in the source repository; only hosted files download from Hugging Bay, and the download plan lists the files it selects for one download, so its count can differ.
- Hosted here: availability unknown
- Full repo upstream: 13.6 GB
- Recommended file: 13.6 GB (Q5_0, 5 files)
- Download: none recorded
- Per-file SHA-256: not available (no files hosted on Hugging Bay)
- Run-ready: no (Hugging Bay has not certified a run path for this model; hosted bytes are downloadable and hash-checkable only)
- Peer-assisted fallbacks: 0 verified, 0 pending review
- Downloads: 958
- Stars: 40
- Card completeness: 96%

## Description

External Hugging Face catalog record for bofenghuang/whisper-large-v3-french. Task: automatic speech recognition. Library: transformers. Languages: fr. Datasets referenced by card metadata: mozilla-foundation/common_voice_13_0, facebook/multilingual_librispeech, facebook/voxpopuli, google/fleurs, gigant/african_accented_french. Includes 5 model-card evaluation signals. Popularity signal at import: 684 downloads and 40 likes.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: mit
- Pipeline: automatic-speech-recognition
- Library: transformers
- Task categories: automatic-speech-recognition
- Languages: fr
- Referenced datasets: mozilla-foundation/common_voice_13_0, facebook/multilingual_librispeech, facebook/voxpopuli, google/fleurs, gigant/african_accented_french
- Metrics: wer
- Paper ids: 2212.04356
- Model-index entries: whisper-large-v3-french
- Evaluation signals: 5 model-card eval results
- File hints: 16 upstream file samples

## Evaluation Signals

- Common Voice 13.0: WER = 7.28 (Automatic Speech Recognition)
- Multilingual LibriSpeech (MLS): WER = 3.98 (Automatic Speech Recognition)
- VoxPopuli: WER = 8.91 (Automatic Speech Recognition)
- Fleurs: WER = 4.84 (Automatic Speech Recognition)
- African Accented French: WER = 4.2 (Automatic Speech Recognition)

## Referenced Data

- Dataset: mozilla-foundation/common_voice_13_0
- Dataset: facebook/multilingual_librispeech
- Dataset: facebook/voxpopuli
- Dataset: google/fleurs
- Dataset: gigant/african_accented_french
- Paper: 2212.04356

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.5 KB)
- README.md (17 KB)
- added_tokens.json (34 KB)
- assets/whisper_fr_eval_long_form.png (229 KB)
- assets/whisper_fr_eval_short_form.png (213 KB)
- config.json (1.2 KB)
- ctranslate2/config.json (2.3 KB)
- ctranslate2/model.bin (2.9 GB) LFS
- ctranslate2/preprocessor_config.json (340 B)
- ctranslate2/tokenizer.json (2.4 MB)
- ctranslate2/vocabulary.json (1.0 MB)
- generation_config.json (3.9 KB)

## Quality Checklist

- Summary: passed
- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: passed
- License: passed
- Provenance: passed
- File inventory: passed
- Hosted bytes: passed
- Scan result: passed
- Manifest signature: pending

## Safety Notes

- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-08-29T08:16:25.019Z.
- Open license detected as mit.
- Model-index metadata found for whisper-large-v3-french.
- Model card references dataset context: mozilla-foundation/common_voice_13_0, facebook/multilingual_librispeech, facebook/voxpopuli, google/fleurs.
- Not locally hosted, mirrored, signed, or rescanned by Hugging Bay.
- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

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