Ethio-ASR Amharic
[ingest-scout] Ethiopian language ASR model fine-tuned from Facebook w2v-bert-2.0 (600M params) on Amharic speech, achieving 22.37 WER on the WAXAL Amharic test set; paper published March 2026 (arXiv:2603.23654), dataset updated June 2026, 1.03k monthly downloads, CC-BY-4.0. Developed by the Ethio-ASR research team — a verified live model filling the Ethiopia AI gap in the registry.
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- 🇳🇬 Nigeria
- Last verified
- 10 Oct 2026
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- 10 Oct 2026 · live
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