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WOLOF-ASR-Wav2Vec2

Wolof ASR fine-tuning code

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Last verified: 1 October 2026

Fine-tuning code for wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on Wolof using the Zindi AI4D Baamtu competition data (about 6,683 training files, 1,590 test files, public transport use case). It includes audio conversion, noise removal and training. Result: 7.88% WER, 8th on the leaderboard. Apache-2.0 license.

Services
  • MP3 to WAV conversion
  • Noise and silence removal
  • wav2vec2 fine-tuning
  • Checkpoint on Hugging Face Hub
Access requirements

Open code (Apache-2.0); the data is not hosted in the repository because of licensing restrictions.

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