Which language model performs best in Basque?
EvalEU: an open ranking that measures and compares how well local language models (Latxa, Kimu, Qwen, Gemma...) handle Basque.
Basque
New Text-to-Speech Models for Basque: Maider, Antton and OmniVoice
New Basque text-to-speech models: HiTZ's Maider and Antton voices for Piper TTS, and OmniVoice, which can synthesize over 600 languages.
Nvidia Parakeet in Basque: fast and CPU-friendly
Nvidia Parakeet fine-tuned for Basque: a lightweight speech recognition model that runs fast on modest hardware and CPUs.
Kimu
Orai's Kimu Basque language models (2B and 9B, based on Gemma 2), converted to GGUF and run locally with Ollama.
Basque from speech to text: improving transcription models
Improving Basque Whisper models with Common Voice, OpenSLR and Basque Parliament data: whisper-small-eu's WER dropped from 11.84% to 7.63%.