whisper-wu — ONNX
ONNX export of kaiwang0574/whisper-wu
(a LoRA adapter over openai/whisper-small, fine-tuned for Wu Chinese by
kaiwang0574) for
onnx-asr (standard whisper model type — works with
stock onnx-asr, no patches needed). fp32 and int8 variants included.
The source repo only publishes a PEFT/LoRA adapter (adapter_config.json +
adapter_model.safetensors, base_model_name_or_path: openai/whisper-small), not a merged
checkpoint. This export merges the adapter into the base model (peft.merge_and_unload())
before running the standard ONNX export pipeline.
License: apache-2.0, inherited from the source model.
First specialized ONNX ASR model for Wu Chinese in this collection.
Usage
Whisper has no dedicated wuu language token; use language="zh" — the Wu-dialect behavior
comes from the fine-tune itself.
import onnx_asr
model = onnx_asr.load_model("whisper", "path/to/this/repo") # or quantization="int8"
print(model.recognize("audio_16khz.wav", language="zh"))
Verified on a clip from MagicHub/magicdata-dialect-wu-chinese-tts-lite (Jiangsu dialect corpus; FLEURS does not cover Wu Chinese):
- Reference: 倷今朝阿去园林里白相?里向个荷花开的交关好看。
- fp32 (RTF 0.21): 內徑在安赤與林立巴線裡,只剩個好伙計的接歸喊口。
- int8 (RTF 0.17): 內境在安赤與林立巴線,只像個好火開的接歸駭口。
Verified with caveats, honestly: the ONNX fp32 output was cross-checked against the
merged model run natively through transformers on the same clip, and the two match closely
("內徑在安赤與林立巴線裡,只剩下個好火開的接歸客戶。") — confirming the ONNX conversion is
faithful. The transcript itself, however, diverges substantially from the reference text.
This is a real accuracy limitation of the small LoRA adapter (rank 16, q/k/v/o_proj only)
on this low-resource dialect, not an artifact of this export. Treat this as a correctly
converted mirror of the source model, not a claim of strong Wu Chinese accuracy. RTF measured
on an AMD Ryzen 5 7600 (CPU, 4 OMP threads, shared/loaded box — not a clean benchmark number).
Int8 decoder was produced by quantizing the pre-merge decoders separately and re-merging
(merge_decoders(..., strict=False)); direct quantization of the merged decoder graph does
not shrink it (its If subgraphs are skipped by onnxruntime's dynamic quantizer).