# kotoba-tech/kotoba-whisper-v1.0

Model from Hugging Face for automatic speech recognition: kotoba-tech/kotoba-whisper-v1.0 · transformers

## Facts

- Type: Audio
- 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/kotoba-tech/kotoba-whisper-v1.0
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- Files: 16 listed, none hosted here
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- Full repo upstream: 3.03 GB
- Recommended file: 3.03 GB · model.safetensors
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- Peer-assisted fallbacks: 0 verified, 0 pending review
- Downloads: 725
- Stars: 59
- Card completeness: 96%

## Description

External Hugging Face catalog record for kotoba-tech/kotoba-whisper-v1.0. Task: automatic speech recognition. Library: transformers. Languages: ja. Datasets referenced by card metadata: japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazonspeech.large, japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazonspeech.large.wer_10.0, japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazonspeech.large.wer_10.0.vectorized. Includes 6 model-card evaluation signals. Popularity signal at import: 610 downloads and 59 likes.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: apache-2.0
- Pipeline: automatic-speech-recognition
- Library: transformers
- Task categories: automatic-speech-recognition
- Languages: ja
- Referenced datasets: japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazonspeech.large, japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazonspeech.large.wer_10.0, japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazonspeech.large.wer_10.0.vectorized
- Metrics: wer, cer
- Paper ids: 2212.04356, 2311.00430
- Model-index entries: kotoba-tech/kotoba-whisper-v1.0
- Evaluation signals: 6 model-card eval results
- File hints: 16 upstream file samples

## Evaluation Signals

- CommonVoice 8 (Japanese test set): WER = 59.2 (automatic-speech-recognition)
- CommonVoice 8 (Japanese test set): CER = 9.4 (automatic-speech-recognition)
- ReazonSpeech (held out test set): WER = 56.6 (automatic-speech-recognition)
- ReazonSpeech (held out test set): CER = 12.2 (automatic-speech-recognition)
- JSUT Basic 5000: WER = 64.3 (automatic-speech-recognition)
- JSUT Basic 5000: CER = 8.5 (automatic-speech-recognition)

## Referenced Data

- Dataset: japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazonspeech.large
- Dataset: japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazonspeech.large.wer_10.0
- Dataset: japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazonspeech.large.wer_10.0.vectorized
- Paper: 2212.04356
- Paper: 2311.00430

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.5 KB)
- .gitignore (6 B)
- README.md (25 KB)
- added_tokens.json (34 KB)
- benchmark.py (766 B)
- benchmark.sh (716 B)
- config.json (1.3 KB)
- create_student_model.py (7.9 KB)
- generation_config.json (3.8 KB)
- merges.txt (482 KB)
- model.safetensors (2.8 GB) LFS
- normalizer.json (51 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 2026-08-29T10:26:15.056Z.
- Open license detected as apache-2.0.
- Model-index metadata found for kotoba-tech/kotoba-whisper-v1.0.
- Model card references dataset context: japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazonspeech.large, japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazonspeech.large.wer_10.0, japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazonspeech.large.wer_10.0.vectorized.
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