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

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 26, 2026 · UTC

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies have achieved remarkable performance in recent years through the use of large multilingual foundation models. However, most advances remain concentrated on high-resource languages, while indigenous languages continue to suffer from a lack of speech resources and language technologies. This work presents a preliminary study on the adaptation of Whisper for Automatic Speech Recognition in Baniwa, an indigenous Arawakan language spoken in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. The experiments were conducted using a corpus of 1,373 manually transcribed rec

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