arxiv:2402.01917

Whispering in Norwegian: Navigating Orthographic and Dialectic Challenges

Published on Feb 2

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Authors:

Per E Kummervold ,

Javier de la Rosa ,

Freddy Wetjen ,

Per Erik Solberg

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 Bokm{\aa}l 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.

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