Fine-Tuning Whisper for Automatic Speech Recognition in Baniwa: A Preliminary Study

arXiv:2608.26060 · cs.CL, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Comments: 12 pages, 3 tables. Preliminary study

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Fine-Tuning — 18× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Automatic Speech Recognition — 16× in this paper
• Adaptation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Foundation Model — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Character Error Rate — 6× in this paper
• Foundation Models — 6× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Word Error Rate — 6× in this paper
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Low-Resource Languages — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Data Augmentation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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