Does whisper support Irish?

[liad-inon]

I'm getting an error when trying to use the Irish language code ga, and it seems that it does not appear in the tokenizer.py LANGUAGES dictionary. However, I couldn't find any source that explicitly states whether Irish is supported or not. Whisper has almost all European languages, so I find it quite odd.

This is a really basic question, but I couldn't find any official full language support list outside of the code in tokenizer.py. And even the language codes in the tokenizer are quite a mess. For example it has Norwegian Bokmal on the general Norwegian code no.

[ryanheise]

The source code (which you consulted) is definitive. You could try searching for anyone who has finetuned the model for Irish.

It's worth mentioning that Irish is also a low resource language so you might not be happy with the results compared to other languages where more training data is available.

The issue with the Norwegian language code has been discussed here: #1250

[liad-inon]

Thanks!!

[sproocht]

No, Whisper does not support Irish Gaelic language (ga). However, if you have some data, you may fine-tune the model for Gaelic, using a supported proxy language like English or Welsh (you need to do some testing here). You may even add Irish Gaelic (ga) to the tokenizer in more advanced settings.
Have a look at some discussion here #13