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WindyWord/
listen-windy-lingua-de-ct2

Name: listen-windy-lingua-de-ct2
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WindyWord.ai STT — German Lingua (CPU INT8 (CTranslate2))

Transcribes German speech (Indo-European > Germanic > West Germanic).

Note: Standard High German (Hochdeutsch). Indo-European > Germanic > West Germanic. Derived from primeline/whisper-large-v3-turbo-german — the top community German Whisper fine-tune (46k+ downloads). Replaces an earlier Swiss-German-only variant. WER 42.6% / CER 8.06% on 100-sample FLEURS (CER is the reliable signal here).

Quality

FLEURS WER: 56.7% (50-sample audit)
CER: 0.2748
Tier: UNUSABLE-GAP ⭐
Source: WindyWord Grand Rounds v2 audit (50-sample FLEURS)

About this variant

This is the ct2-int8 deployment format of our German Lingua STT model. Load it via the ct2-int8/ subfolder.

Part of the WindyWord.ai STT fleet — covering 35+ languages that commercial speech-to-text APIs underserve, with proper dialect / script disclosures where they matter.

Usage

python

from transformers import WhisperForConditionalGeneration, WhisperProcessor
processor = WhisperProcessor.from_pretrained("WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-de-ct2", subfolder="ct2-int8")
model = WhisperForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-de-ct2", subfolder="ct2-int8")

Commercial Use

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Provenance & License

Weights derived from upstream community Whisper fine-tunes (see individual model card for exact lineage). Redistributed under Apache-2.0 (inherited).

Certified by Opus 4.6 Opus-Claw (Dr. C) on Veron-1 (RTX 5090, Mt Pleasant SC).