🌾 Verdi AI OS: Whisper Small Shona ASR (Stage 1c Completed)
This repository hosts a completely standalone, fully compiled model optimized natively for the Shona language (sn-ZW). It forms the core Speech-to-Text foundation for Verdi AI OS—an agricultural operating system built for logistics metrics automation and voice marketplace tracking.
📊 Training Progression Metrics
Stage 1a (FLEURS Baseline): Dropped baseline WER to 37.15%
Stage 1b (Bible Chunk 1): Dropped WER to 29.39%
Stage 1c (Bible Chunk 2 - 6,000 Rows): Finished at 26.42% WER with an un-normalized training loss of 0.079
