WindyWord.ai STT — Malayalam Lingua (GPU (safetensors))

Transcribes Malayalam speech (Dravidian > Southern Dravidian).

Note: Quality ceiling: audited at 73.3% WER (community Malayalam Whisper space is thin — best alternative on HuggingFace audited at 76.5%, ~1.5% worse). Source: vrclc/Whisper-small-Malayalam. For high-stakes Malayalam transcription consider openai/whisper-large-v3 multilingual.

Quality

FLEURS WER: 73.2% (50-sample audit)
CER: 0.4872
Tier: UNUSABLE-GAP ⭐
Source: WindyWord Grand Rounds v2 audit (50-sample FLEURS)

About this variant

This is the safetensors deployment format of our Malayalam Lingua STT model. Load it via the safetensors/ subfolder.

Part of the WindyWord.ai STT fleet — covering 35+ languages that commercial speech-to-text APIs underserve, with proper dialect / script disclosures where they matter.

Usage

from transformers import WhisperForConditionalGeneration, WhisperProcessor
processor = WhisperProcessor.from_pretrained("WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-ml", subfolder="safetensors")
model = WhisperForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-ml", subfolder="safetensors")

Commercial Use

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Provenance & License

Weights derived from upstream community Whisper fine-tunes (see individual model card for exact lineage). Redistributed under Apache-2.0 (inherited).

Certified by Opus 4.6 Opus-Claw (Dr. C) on Veron-1 (RTX 5090, Mt Pleasant SC).

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