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French transcription is really poor

by BenTouss - opened Nov 9, 2023

Nov 9, 2023

I don't know if this is known, but for French, the persormances of Distil-Whisper is really far behind whisper.
Maybe the 'distillation' (I think it is removing some parts of decoder) removes the multilanguage capability of whisper.

Xenova

Whisper Distillation org Nov 9, 2023

Hi there. As stated in the README and the paper:

Note: Distil-Whisper is currently only available for English speech recognition. Multilingual support will be provided soon.

Hope that answers your question!

BenTouss

Nov 9, 2023

Oh yes, sorry I missed that.
Thanks a lot for the explanation

BenTouss changed discussion status to closed Nov 9, 2023

sanchit-gandhi

Whisper Distillation org Nov 17, 2023

Thanks @Xenova for the swift clarification! We recently released training code that should facilitate you to train a Distil-Whisper model in your choice of language: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7131004471806980096/

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