Journey (do not ship final step)
- Female LoRA — initial Latam-ES female-only adapter.
- M+F base run — continued to step 10250 (
latam-es-mf). - Paso0 WER screen — best base checkpoint by WER was
checkpoint-step-008000(not the final 10250). - Polish — LoRA polish started from adapter at step 8000, run
latam-es-mf-polish, 1500 polish steps oncuda:0, checkpoints every 100 steps. - Polish WER (xAI STT, es) over the 5 fixed Spanish prompts:
- Best:
checkpoint-step-000400@ 6.1% WER (3/49 edits) - Final
checkpoint-step-001500@ 42.9% WER — worse; do not ship.
- Best:
- Release choice — promote polish-400 only; other polish checkpoints deleted on disk after selection.
Release artifacts here
| Path | What |
|---|---|
samples/sample_01.wav … sample_05.wav |
Spanish samples from polish-400 |
samples/prompts.txt |
Matching reference prompts |
docs/wer_report.md / wer_report.json |
Full WER table 100→1500 |
docs/polish-run-config.json |
Polish train config |
docs/latest.json |
Points at promoted step 400 |
Polish params (summary)
See docs/polish-run-config.json for full config. High level:
- Base adapter init:
WORKSTATION/checkpoint-step-008000 - Polish run root:
WORKSTATION/latam-es-mf-polish - Device:
cuda:0(power-capped card; intentional for this polish) - Steps: 1500; save every 100
- Promoted checkpoint on server:
WORKSTATION/checkpoint-step-000400
WER ranking (avg over 5 prompts)
| step | avg WER |
|---|---|
| 400 | 6.1% |
| 100 | 10.2% |
| 900 | 12.2% |
| 200 / 1100 | 14.3% |
| 1000 / 1200 | 16.3% |
| 700 | 18.4% |
| 800 | 24.5% |
| 300 / 600 | 26.5% |
| 1300 / 1400 | 28.6% |
| 500 / 1500 | 42.9% |
STT judge: local xAI audio shim → grok-transcribe, language es.
Explicit non-goals
- Do not ship polish-1500 / TRAIN_DONE final solely because training completed.
- Prefer polish-400 (or re-listen top-3: 400, 100, 900) for release.
Deployment (2026-09-11)
Polish-400 merged + NF4 on the mfwin RTX 3060 (WSL2), served via
OpenAI-compatible POST /v1/audio/speech, set as Hermes default TTS
(breeze_latam) on .51/.54/.55/mac with boot autostart. Full report:
docs/nf4-deploy.md. Winner 10-prompt wavs under
nf4/; reproducible deploy kit under deploy/.