Instructions to use KBLab/kb-whisper-large with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use KBLab/kb-whisper-large with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model="KBLab/kb-whisper-large")# Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("KBLab/kb-whisper-large") model = AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq.from_pretrained("KBLab/kb-whisper-large") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
citation?
Hello! I would love to cite your work in my thesis, do you have that at hand?
Hi! Thank you for your message. Feel free to cite this blog post https://kb-labb.github.io/posts/2025-03-07-welcome-KB-Whisper/#citation. We are also hoping to publish a peer reviewed article soon, so we will update the HF README once we have a citation.
Hi,
We now have an ArXiv paper published (https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17538) which you can cite in the following way:
@misc {vesterbacka2025swedishwhispersleveragingmassive,
title={Swedish Whispers; Leveraging a Massive Speech Corpus for Swedish Speech Recognition},
author={Leonora Vesterbacka and Faton Rekathati and Robin Kurtz and Justyna Sikora and Agnes Toftgård},
year={2025},
eprint={2505.17538},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17538},
}
A citation to a peer reviewed version TBA.
There's now an Interspeech paper about KB-Whisper that can be cited:
@inproceedings{vesterbacka25_interspeech,
title = {{Swedish Whispers; Leveraging a Massive Speech Corpus for Swedish Speech Recognition}},
author = {{Leonora Vesterbacka and Faton Rekathati and Robin Kurtz and Justyna Sikora and Agnes Toftgård}},
year = {{2025}},
booktitle = {{Interspeech 2025}},
pages = {{758--762}},
doi = {{10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2646}},
issn = {{2958-1796}},
}