NOTICE

Afrikaans-tuned Whisper model by DigiPhyte (Pty) Ltd
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This model is a fine-tune / derivative work, distributed under the MIT License
(see LICENSE). The upstream works below are gratefully acknowledged and their
licences are preserved as required.

1. Base model: OpenAI Whisper
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   openai/whisper-large-v3  (and large-v3-turbo / medium / small variants)
   Copyright OpenAI. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
   https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3
   A copy of the Apache 2.0 licence is included as LICENSE-whisper-apache-2.0.txt.
   Modifications by DigiPhyte: fine-tuned with a LoRA adapter for South African
   Afrikaans, then merged into the base weights and converted to the CTranslate2
   format for use with faster-whisper.

2. Training data: afrikaans-30s
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   andreoosthuizen/afrikaans-30s (approx. 56 hours of Afrikaans speech).
   Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
   https://huggingface.co/datasets/andreoosthuizen/afrikaans-30s

3. LoRA adapter (large-v3 model only)
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   andreoosthuizen/whisper-large-v3-afrikaans
   Copyright (c) Andre Oosthuizen. Licensed under the MIT License.
   https://huggingface.co/andreoosthuizen/whisper-large-v3-afrikaans
   This attribution applies to the large-v3 Afrikaans model, which reuses this
   adapter. The medium, large-v3-turbo, and small Afrikaans models were fine-tuned
   by DigiPhyte directly on the afrikaans-30s dataset (item 2) and do not include
   this adapter.