● Let me look at how the training pipeline handles language tags and transcription format so I can give your inference agent accurate guidance.

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● Now let me check the inference pipeline to understand how Qwen3ASRModel works:

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● Now let me check how the model's transcribe works and what it sends as the prompt:

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● Now I have the full picture. Here are my suggestions for your inference agent:

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  Key issues in the benchmark script:

  1. validate_language() will crash on Indic languages

  The biggest problem: utils.py:SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES only has the 30 base Qwen3-ASR languages. It does NOT include Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati,
  Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, or Telugu. When the benchmark calls model.transcribe(language="Tamil"), it hits
  validate_language() → ValueError: Unsupported language: Tamil.

  Fix: The inference agent needs to either:
  - Add the Indic languages to SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES in qwen_asr/inference/utils.py
  - Or pass language=None and let the model auto-detect (the model was trained with language_tag_mode=auto which embeds language names in the
  target text, so auto-detect should work)

  2. Language name mismatch

  The benchmark script's LANG_CODE_TO_NAME matches the training script's exactly — that's good. But _MODEL_SUPPORTED_LANGS in the benchmark only
  has the base 30 languages. So the force_language logic falls back to None for all Indic languages except Hindi/English. This means:
  - Hindi/English: forced language → model outputs raw text only
  - Other Indic: auto-detect → model outputs language Tamil<asr_text>actual text

  This inconsistency will mess up WER because parse_asr_output strips the language prefix when user_language is set, but keeps it otherwise.

  Fix: Either force all languages (after adding them to SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES) or force none.

  3. How the model actually generates output

  During training, the target format is:
  language Tamil<asr_text>நான் வீட்டுக்கு போகிறேன்

  At inference with force_language="Tamil", the prompt is pre-filled with language Tamil<asr_text> and the model generates just the transcription
  text. Without forcing, the model generates the full language X<asr_text>text sequence and parse_asr_output extracts the text part.

  4. The transcribe() API expects (np.ndarray, sr) tuples, not raw arrays

  The benchmark passes audio_inputs.append((wav, sr)) — that's correct.

  5. Recommendation for the benchmark:

  # Option A: Add Indic languages to SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES and force language
  # This is cleaner and gives better results since the model doesn't waste
  # tokens on language detection.

  # In qwen_asr/inference/utils.py, add to SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES:
  # "Assamese", "Bengali", "Gujarati", "Kannada", "Malayalam",
  # "Marathi", "Odia", "Punjabi", "Tamil", "Telugu"

  # Option B: Don't force language, let auto-detect work
  # Simpler, but the model generates `language X<asr_text>text`
  # and parse_asr_output handles extraction.
  # Use: model.transcribe(audio=audio_inputs, language=None)

  6. max_new_tokens=256 may be too low for longer Indic transcriptions — some of the 10-15s samples in the training data have 280+ character
  transcripts. Consider 448 or 512.

  7. The checkpoint needs base model files

  The MakeEveryCheckpointInferableCallback copies required HF files (preprocessor_config, chat_template, etc.) into each checkpoint. Verify these
  exist in the checkpoint being benchmarked, otherwise from_pretrained will fail.

  Want me to patch SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES in utils.py to include the Indic languages?

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● Update(qwen_asr/inference/utils.py)
  ⎿  Added 12 lines, removed 1 line
      64      "Greek",
      65      "Romanian",
      66      "Hungarian",
      67 -    "Macedonian"
      67 +    "Macedonian",
      68 +    # Indic languages (added via Phase 2 fine-tuning)
      69 +    "Assamese",
      70 +    "Bengali",
      71 +    "Gujarati",
      72 +    "Kannada",
      73 +    "Malayalam",
      74 +    "Marathi",
      75 +    "Odia",
      76 +    "Punjabi",
      77 +    "Tamil",
      78 +    "Telugu",
      79  ]
      80  _ASR_TEXT_TAG = "<asr_text>"
      81  _LANG_PREFIX = "language "

● Bash(python3 -m py_compile /root/data/Qwen3-ASR-official/qwen_asr/inference/utils.py && echo "OK")
  ⎿  OK

● Bash(git add qwen_asr/inference/utils.py && git commit -m "$(cat <<'EOF'
      Add Indic languages to SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES for inference…)
  ⎿  [main 915a4ba] Add Indic languages to SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES for inference
      1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
     To https://github.com/Maya-AI-ML-Trainings-Cookbooks/qwen3-asr-1.7b-phase2-sft.git
        fb9c6e1..915a4ba  main -> main

● Done. Pushed to the repo. Your inference agent can now force_language="Tamil" etc. without hitting the ValueError.