Possible to fine with an other language

[ahoepf]

Hi all,

do someone know, if it is possible to finetune with an other language like german?

greeting

Al

[vatsalaggarwal]

Yes, the Kotoba (https://github.com/kotoba-tech/kotoba-speech-release) team finetuned the model to make it work in Japanese. My understanding is that they used the pretrained first stage model as a base model, and only finetuned this. The rest was kept fixed.