Reproducing Whisper-Style Training Using an Open-Source Toolkit and Publicly Available Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13876v3
• Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:28:22 GMT
• Title: Reproducing Whisper-Style Training Using an Open-Source Toolkit and Publicly Available Data
• Authors: Yifan Peng, Jinchuan Tian, Brian Yan, Dan Berrebbi, Xuankai Chang, Xinjian Li, Jiatong Shi, Siddhant Arora, William Chen, Roshan Sharma, Wangyou Zhang, Yui Sudo, Muhammad Shakeel, Jee-weon Jung, Soumi Maiti, Shinji Watanabe
• Abstract summary: This work presents an Open Whisper-style Speech Model (OWSM) OWSM reproduces Whisper-style training using an open-source toolkit and publicly available data. We will publicly release all scripts used for data preparation, training, inference, and scoring as well as pre-trained models and training logs to promote open science.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Pre-training speech models on large volumes of data has achieved remarkable success. OpenAI Whisper is a multilingual multitask model trained on 680k hours of supervised speech data. It generalizes well to various speech recognition and translation benchmarks even in a zero-shot setup. However, the full pipeline for developing such models (from data collection to training) is not publicly accessible, which makes it difficult for researchers to further improve its performance and address training-related issues such as efficiency, robustness, fairness, and bias. This work presents an Open Whisper-style Speech Model (OWSM), which reproduces Whisper-style training using an open-source toolkit and publicly available data. OWSM even supports more translation directions and can be more efficient to train. We will publicly release all scripts used for data preparation, training, inference, and scoring as well as pre-trained models and training logs to promote open science.

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