Whale: Large-Scale multilingual ASR model with w2v-BERT and E-Branchformer with large speech data

Yosuke Kashiwagi, Hayato Futami, Emiru Tsunoo +1

This paper reports on the development of a large-scale speech recognition model, Whale. Similar to models such as Whisper and OWSM, Whale leverages both a large model size and a di…