Malayalam Support?

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by trysem - opened

why no Indic languages yet? please support Malayalam, eagerly waiting...

NVIDIA org

Malayalam is not in the current supported set, but the model's tokenizer and architecture support adding new languages through fine-tuning.

The fine-tuning recipe is here: https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/fine-tuning-nemotron-35-asr

You'd need a Malayalam speech dataset with punctuated, properly-cased transcripts. Common Voice and FLEURS both have Malayalam splits. For a community example of adding a new language, see this Swahili adaptation: https://huggingface.co/Tonykip/nemotron-3.5-swahili-streaming-asr

We're tracking demand for Indic languages. Hindi is already transcription-ready, and expanding to more Indic locales is on the roadmap.

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