Need expert help fine-tuning Whisper for Heimish Yiddish (production ASR)

[YF845]

Hi,

I’m looking for hands-on expert guidance on fine-tuning Whisper for Heimish / Hasidic Yiddish (Hebrew script).

Goal

High-quality transcription from seconds-long clips up to multi-hour audio

End-to-end transcription in ~1–3 minutes

ASR core must be production-ready and handoff-ready for later web deployment
(not building the website yet)

Current state

Whisper-small experimental fine-tune

Output quality inconsistent (phonetic drift, mixed words)

What I already have

Clean 16kHz WAV audio

Human-verified transcripts (I’m an experienced transcriber)

Proper UTF-8 CSV metadata

Long-audio chunking is understood (not my blocker)

What I need

Practical guidance from someone who has:

fine-tuned Whisper for dialects / low-resource languages

improved linguistic accuracy and output stability

Not looking for

setup / CUDA issues

basic Whisper explanations

model theory

If you’ve done similar work or can point me to the right person, I’d appreciate it.
Happy to continue privately.

Thanks,

[YF845]

Clarification:
I’m happy to compensate for expert time if deeper 1-on-1 guidance is needed.

My main goal is to get the ASR quality right (Heimish Yiddish fine-tuning).
I already have clean data and transcripts — looking for someone with real hands-on experience to help push this to production quality.

Feel free to reply here or suggest moving the conversation privately.