NE-SpeechEmbed is a multilingual speech-text embedding model by MWire Labs for Northeast Indian languages. The model supports semantic speech search, cross-modal retrieval, and audio-text embeddings across Khasi, Garo, Mizo, Nagamese, Kokborok, Assamese, Wancho, and Chakma.
NE-SpeechEmbed is the first multilingual speech-text retrieval and embedding model developed for Northeast Indian languages by MWire Labs. The model is trained on 73,476 speech-text pairs collected from proprietary MWire Labs corpora and the Vaani dataset. The architecture uses a fine-tuned Whisper-medium speech encoder and an XLM-Roberta-base text encoder aligned through contrastive learning using InfoNCE loss. Both encoders are projected into a shared 768-dimensional embedding space for speech-text similarity and retrieval tasks. Supported languages include Khasi, Garo, Mizo, Nagamese, Kokborok, Assamese, Wancho, and Chakma across Austroasiatic, Tibeto-Burman, and Indo-Aryan language families. NE-SpeechEmbed supports: * Semantic speech search * Speech-to-text retrieval * Audio-text similarity * Cross-modal embeddings * Low-resource multilingual speech applications The model establishes a foundational benchmark for multilingual speech embeddings in Northeast India and consistently outperforms CLAP zero-shot retrieval baselines across all supported languages. Developed and released by MWire Labs under CC-BY-4.0.
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MWirelabs
Multimodal Language Model
PyTorch
Open
Sector Agnostic
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Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY- 4.0)
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