π₯ Two medical English ASR models are up Hey, back from a long holiday. While I was out the team kept working on this one and the results are pretty interesting. Medical English ASR, evaluated against the published MultiMed paper.
Both trained on MultiMed (leduckhai/MultiMed) mixed with Common Voice 17 English train and validation. Mixing CV in prevents catastrophic forgetting of general English. Medical-only training without CV cost us 5 absolute WER points on general English.
π Normalized WER on MultiMed-en test, same protocol as the paper:
Turns out : if we predict π earth we can save a lot of time looking for interesting things and less time looking at things that we expect to see.
Sentinel-2 imagery π°οΈbasically takes a long time to download towards earth. so our "near real time" systems are quite far from that in practical terms.
meanwhile , if we "predict" what we will see , based on what we do see , we can send down much less data in a timely way , and prioritize π‘earth-bound response .
I'm talking about illegal fishing , logging , mining or building in nature reserves , the more of that we predict early the more we're able to stop it on time.
Just published: how we built production Sango (Central African Republic) translation without fine-tuning, parallel corpus, or training compute.
The method β vocabulary-augmented prompting with a 581-entry native-speaker-verified lexicon β generalizes to any of the ~2,000 African languages at the same data-poverty level. Recipe, dataset, and code template all included.
π The WAVe paper is officially out in the Information Sciences Journal.
You saw the PT and NL model releases earlier this year. This is the peer-reviewed paper behind them, with the full method, ablations, and downstream ASR evaluation.
Quick recap: WAVe is a 1B multimodal embedding model that filters synthetic speech at the word level, not the sentence level. On Portuguese ASR it cuts training steps by 34%, improves cross-domain generalization by 50%, and matches WER with 30% less synthetic data.