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  url: https://jacktol.net/posts/fine-tuning_whisper_for_atc/
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+ # Whisper Medium EN Fine-Tuned for Air Traffic Control (ATC)
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+ ## Model Overview
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+ This model is a fine-tuned version of OpenAI's Whisper Medium EN model, specifically trained on **Air Traffic Control (ATC)** communication datasets. The fine-tuning process significantly improves transcription accuracy on domain-specific aviation communications, reducing the **Word Error Rate (WER) by 84%**, compared to the original pretrained model. The model is particularly effective at handling accent variations and ambiguous phrasing often encountered in ATC communications.
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+ - **Base Model**: OpenAI Whisper Medium EN
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+ - **Fine-tuned Model WER**: 15.08%
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+ - **Pretrained Model WER**: 94.59%
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+ - **Relative Improvement**: 84.06%
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+ You can access the fine-tuned model on Hugging Face:
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+ - [Whisper Medium EN Fine-Tuned for ATC](https://huggingface.co/jacktol/whisper-medium.en-fine-tuned-for-ATC)
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+ - [Whisper Medium EN Fine-Tuned for ATC (Faster Whisper)](https://huggingface.co/jacktol/whisper-medium.en-fine-tuned-for-ATC-faster-whisper)
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+ ## Model Description
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+ Whisper Medium EN fine-tuned for ATC is optimized to handle short, distinct transmissions between pilots and air traffic controllers. It is fine-tuned using data from:
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+ - **[ATCO2 corpus](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Jzuluaga/atco2_corpus_1h)** (1-hour test subset)
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+ - **[UWB-ATCC corpus](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Jzuluaga/uwb_atcc)**
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+ The fine-tuned model demonstrates enhanced performance in interpreting various accents, recognizing non-standard phraseology, and processing noisy or distorted communications. It is highly suitable for aviation-related transcription tasks.
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+ ## Intended Use
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+ The fine-tuned Whisper model is designed for:
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+ - **Transcribing aviation communication**: Providing accurate transcriptions for ATC communications, including accents and variations in English phrasing.
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+ - **Air Traffic Control Systems**: Assisting in real-time transcription of pilot-ATC conversations, helping improve situational awareness.
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+ - **Research and training**: Useful for researchers, developers, or aviation professionals studying ATC communication or developing new tools for aviation safety.
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+ You can test the model online using the [ATC Transcription Assistant](https://huggingface.co/spaces/jacktol/ATC-Transcription-Assistant), which lets you upload audio files and generate transcriptions.
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+ ## Dataset
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+ The dataset used for fine-tuning includes:
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+ - **ATCO2**: An air traffic control dataset featuring real-world communications, including a freely available 1-hour test subset.
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+ - **UWB-ATCC**: A manually transcribed ATC corpus containing thousands of hours of recordings, focusing on air traffic communications.
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+ For more details on the dataset, refer to the **[ATC Dataset page](https://huggingface.co/datasets/jacktol/atc-dataset)**.
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+ ## Training Procedure
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+ - **Hardware**: Fine-tuning was conducted on two A100 GPUs with 80GB memory.
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+ - **Epochs**: 10
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+ - **Learning Rate**: 1e-5
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+ - **Batch Size**: 32 (effective batch size with gradient accumulation)
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+ - **Augmentation**: Dynamic data augmentation techniques (Gaussian noise, pitch shifting, etc.) were applied during training.
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+ - **Evaluation Metric**: Word Error Rate (WER)
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+ ## Limitations
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+ While the fine-tuned model performs well in ATC-specific communications, it may not generalize as effectively to other domains of speech. Additionally, like most speech-to-text models, transcription accuracy can be affected by extremely poor-quality audio or heavily accented speech not encountered during training.
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+ ## References
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+ - **Blog Post**: [Fine-Tuning Whisper for ATC: 84% Improvement in Transcription Accuracy](https://jacktol.net/posts/fine-tuning_whisper_for_atc/)
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+ - **GitHub Repository**: [Fine-Tuning Whisper on ATC Data](https://github.com/jack-tol/fine-tuning-whisper-on-atc-data/tree/main)