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Whispering in Norwegian: Navigating Orthographic and Dialectic Challenges

Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This article introduces NB-Whisper, an adaptation of OpenAI's Whisper, specifically fine-tuned for Norwegian language Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). We highlight its key contributions and summarise the results achieved in converting spoken Norwegian into written forms and translating other languages into Norwegian. We show that we are able to improve the Norwegian Bokmål transcription by OpenAI Whisper Large-v3 from a WER of 10.4 to 6.6 on the Fleurs Dataset and from 6.8 to 2.2 on the NST dataset.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4402111998
FWCI: 1.103
Cites: 1
Cited by: 7
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