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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-cantonese

Available as managed deployment Audio ctl · community Speech→text 1 variants 2k dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-cantonese is an open-weight audio or speech model from ctl. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

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What it is

Released byctl
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity2k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-cantonese is

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on Cantonese using the Common Voice. When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz.

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Usage

The model can be used directly (without a language model) as follows:

import torch
import torchaudio
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor

test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", "zh-HK", split="test[:2%]")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("ctl/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-cantonese")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("ctl/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-cantonese")

resampler = torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the aduio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
	speech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
	batch["speech"] = resampler(speech_array).squeeze().numpy()
	return batch

test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)
inputs = processor(test_dataset["speech"][:2], sampling_rate=16_000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)

with torch.no_grad():
	logits = model(inputs.input_values, attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask).logits

predicted_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)

print("Prediction:", processor.batch_decode(predicted_ids))
print("Reference:", test_dataset["sentence"][:2])

Evaluation

The model can be evaluated as follows on the Chinese (Hong Kong) test data of Common Voice.

!pip install jiwer
import torch
import torchaudio
from datasets import load_dataset, load_metric
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
import re
import argparse

lang_id = "zh-HK"
model_id = "ctl/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-cantonese"

chars_to_ignore_regex = '[\,\?\.\!\-\;\:"\“\%\‘\”\�\.\⋯\!\-\:\–\。\》\,\)\,\?\;\~\~\…\︰\,\(\」\‧\《\﹔\、\—\/\,\「\﹖\·\']'

test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", f"{lang_id}", split="test")
cer = load_metric("cer")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(f"{model_id}")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(f"{model_id}")
model.to("cuda")

resampler = torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the aduio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
    batch["sentence"] = re.sub(chars_to_ignore_regex, '', batch["sentence"]).lower()
    speech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
    batch["speech"] = resampler(speech_array).squeeze().numpy()
    return batch

test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the aduio files as arrays
def evaluate(batch):
    inputs = processor(batch["speech"], sampling_rate=16_000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
    with torch.no_grad():
        logits = model(inputs.input_values.to("cuda"), attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask.to("cuda")).logits

    pred_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
    batch["pred_strings"] = processor.batch_decode(pred_ids)
    return batch

result = test_dataset.map(evaluate, batched=True, batch_size=16)

print("CER: {:2f}".format(100 * cer.compute(predictions=result["pred_strings"], references=result["sentence"])))

Test Result: 15.51 %

Training

The Common Voice train, validation were used for training.

The script used for training will be posted here

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
Speech RecognitionCommon Voice zh-HKTest CER15.360

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys ctl-wav2vec2-large-xlsr-cantonese for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (ctl-wav2vec2-large-xlsr-cantonese below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -F model="ctl-wav2vec2-large-xlsr-cantonese" -F file=@audio.mp3

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