#Monsoon

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Oct 9
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Whisper Medium Cuts Bengali WER to 7.65% via Monsoon Fine-tuning

The numbers suggest teams working on under-served languages should invest in corpus collection before paying for larger models. The 769M-parameter size also makes on-device or edge deployment realistic for markets like Bangladesh and India where Bengali ASR options remain thin. Developers can reproduce the setup with open Whisper checkpoints and the Monsoon dataset.

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Sep 28
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Monsoon speech dataset cuts Telugu WER from 92.7% to 16.1%

The takeaway is that low-resource ASR quality can be bought with better data curation rather than bigger models, since a mid-size Whisper checkpoint beat Gemini 3.1 Pro on Telugu purely through fine-tuning. Teams building speech products for Indic and other under-served language markets can use this dataset-first approach instead of waiting for larger architectures. Keeping noisy audio in training, with DNSMOS-based stratification, is the transferable technique.

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