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japanese-wav2vec2-large

Available as managed deployment Embeddings reazon-research Embeddings 1 variants 8k dl/mo

japanese-wav2vec2-large is an open-weight embedding model from reazon-research. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released byreazon-research
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Parameters (lead)316M
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-11-18
Popularity8k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What japanese-wav2vec2-large is

This is a Japanese wav2vec 2.0 Large model pre-trained on ReazonSpeech v2.0 corpus.

We also release the CTC model reazon-research/japanese-wav2vec2-large-rs35kh derived from this model.

Read the full model card

Usage

import librosa
import torch
from transformers import AutoFeatureExtractor, AutoModel

feature_extractor = AutoFeatureExtractor.from_pretrained("reazon-research/japanese-wav2vec2-large")
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("reazon-research/japanese-wav2vec2-large")

audio, sr = librosa.load(audio_file, sr=16_000)
inputs = feature_extractor(
    audio,
    return_tensors="pt",
    sampling_rate=sr,
)
with torch.inference_mode():
    outputs = model(**inputs)

Citation

@misc{reazon-research-japanese-wav2vec2-large,
  title={japanese-wav2vec2-large},
  author={Sasaki, Yuta},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/reazon-research/japanese-wav2vec2-large},
  year = {2024}
}

License

Apaceh Licence 2.0

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

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"japanese-wav2vec2-large","input":"text to embed"}'

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