asr/README.md

🎙️ ASR Workspace

Place ASR baselines, training configs, and evaluation scripts here.

✅ Verified Pashto-Relevant ASR Models

🧠 OpenAI Whisper Large v3

• Model: huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3
• Pashto validation: OpenAI Whisper tokenizer map includes "ps": "pashto".
• Use in this repo: strong baseline and pseudo-labeling engine for bootstrapping.
• Applications: transcription, subtitle generation, dataset pre-labeling.

🌐 Meta MMS Coverage (ASR + TTS language support)

• Coverage page: MMS language coverage
• Pashto validation: row includes pus with ASR and TTS support.
• Use in this repo: multilingual transfer baseline when Pashto data is limited.
• Applications: low-resource ASR transfer experiments.

⚙️ Verified Inference Tooling

🚀 Faster-Whisper

• Repo: github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
• Why useful: optimized Whisper inference for faster experimentation.
• Use in this repo: local transcription pipelines and benchmark generation speedups.

🧩 Integration Hints

• Keep all model/eval runs reproducible with command logs and commit hashes.
• Store evaluation outputs under benchmarks/ with model/version labels.
• Track WER/CER with dataset split and normalization policy references.