# KBLab/kb-whisper-base

Model from Hugging Face for automatic speech recognition: KBLab/kb-whisper-base · transformers

## Facts

- Type: LLM
- Task: automatic-speech-recognition
- Framework: transformers
- License: apache-2.0 — Permissive open license: commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted. (https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html)
- Source: https://huggingface.co/KBLab/kb-whisper-base
- Hosting: unknown (no download location recorded)
- Files: 48 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: 4.07 GB
- Recommended file: 4.06 GB (Q5_0, 36 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: 793
- Stars: 4
- Card completeness: 96%

## Description

External Hugging Face catalog record for KBLab/kb-whisper-base. Task: automatic speech recognition. Library: transformers. Languages: sv. Datasets referenced by card metadata: KBLab/rixvox-v2. Base model: openai/whisper-base. Popularity signal at import: 1,365 downloads and 4 likes.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: apache-2.0
- Pipeline: automatic-speech-recognition
- Library: transformers
- Base model: openai/whisper-base
- Task categories: automatic-speech-recognition
- Languages: sv
- Referenced datasets: KBLab/rixvox-v2
- Paper ids: 2505.17538
- File hints: 16 upstream file samples

## Referenced Data

- Dataset: KBLab/rixvox-v2
- Paper: 2505.17538

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.5 KB)
- README.md (16 KB)
- added_tokens.json (34 KB)
- config.json (3.5 KB)
- generation_config.json (3.7 KB)
- ggml-model-q5_0.bin (53 MB) LFS
- ggml-model.bin (141 MB) LFS
- merges.txt (482 KB)
- model.bin (138 MB) LFS
- model.safetensors (189 MB) LFS
- normalizer.json (51 KB)
- onnx/decoder_model.onnx (199 MB) LFS

## 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 2026-09-22T17:00:41.280Z.
- Open license detected as apache-2.0.
- Model card references dataset context: KBLab/rixvox-v2.
- 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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