---
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- automatic-speech-recognition
- whisper
- windyword
- japanese
- ja
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition
language:
- ja
---

# WindyWord.ai STT — Japanese Lingua (GPU (safetensors))

**Transcribes Japanese speech (Japonic).**

> **Note:** **Quality note:** based on whisper-base-japanese (74M params). Small model for a top-10 language; production users may prefer the multilingual `openai/whisper-large-v3` for higher accuracy.

## Quality

- **WER:** unverified by WindyWord harness yet. Imported from upstream community fine-tune.

## About this variant

This is the **safetensors** deployment format of our Japanese Lingua STT model. Load it via the `safetensors/` subfolder.

Part of the [WindyWord.ai](https://windyword.ai) STT fleet — covering 35+ languages that commercial speech-to-text APIs underserve, with proper dialect / script disclosures where they matter.

## Usage

```python
from transformers import WhisperForConditionalGeneration, WhisperProcessor
processor = WhisperProcessor.from_pretrained("WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-ja", subfolder="safetensors")
model = WhisperForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("WindyWord/listen-windy-lingua-ja", subfolder="safetensors")
```

## Commercial Use

Visit [windyword.ai](https://windyword.ai) for apps and API access.

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## Provenance & License

Weights derived from upstream community Whisper fine-tunes (see individual model card for exact lineage). Redistributed under Apache-2.0 (inherited).

*Certified by Opus 4.6 Opus-Claw (Dr. C) on Veron-1 (RTX 5090, Mt Pleasant SC).*