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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-french

Available as managed deployment Audio jonatasgrosman · community Speech→text 1 variants 14k dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-french is an open-weight audio or speech model from jonatasgrosman. 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 byjonatasgrosman
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity14k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-french is

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on French using the train and validation splits of Common Voice 6.1. When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz.

This model has been fine-tuned thanks to the GPU credits generously given by the OVHcloud :)

The script used for training can be found here: https://github.com/jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-sprint

Read the full model card

Usage

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

Using the HuggingSound library:

from huggingsound import SpeechRecognitionModel

model = SpeechRecognitionModel("jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-french")
audio_paths = ["/path/to/file.mp3", "/path/to/another_file.wav"]

transcriptions = model.transcribe(audio_paths)

Writing your own inference script:

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

LANG_ID = "fr"
MODEL_ID = "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-french"
SAMPLES = 10

test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", LANG_ID, split=f"test[:{SAMPLES}]")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
    speech_array, sampling_rate = librosa.load(batch["path"], sr=16_000)
    batch["speech"] = speech_array
    batch["sentence"] = batch["sentence"].upper()
    return batch

test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)
inputs = processor(test_dataset["speech"], 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)
predicted_sentences = processor.batch_decode(predicted_ids)

for i, predicted_sentence in enumerate(predicted_sentences):
    print("-" * 100)
    print("Reference:", test_dataset[i]["sentence"])
    print("Prediction:", predicted_sentence)
ReferencePrediction
"CE DERNIER A ÉVOLUÉ TOUT AU LONG DE L'HISTOIRE ROMAINE."CE DERNIER ÉVOLUÉ TOUT AU LONG DE L'HISTOIRE ROMAINE
CE SITE CONTIENT QUATRE TOMBEAUX DE LA DYNASTIE ACHÉMÉNIDE ET SEPT DES SASSANIDES.CE SITE CONTIENT QUATRE TOMBEAUX DE LA DYNASTIE ASHEMÉNID ET SEPT DES SASANDNIDES
"J'AI DIT QUE LES ACTEURS DE BOIS AVAIENT, SELON MOI, BEAUCOUP D'AVANTAGES SUR LES AUTRES."JAI DIT QUE LES ACTEURS DE BOIS AVAIENT SELON MOI BEAUCOUP DAVANTAGES SUR LES AUTRES
LES PAYS-BAS ONT REMPORTÉ TOUTES LES ÉDITIONS.LE PAYS-BAS ON REMPORTÉ TOUTES LES ÉDITIONS
IL Y A MAINTENANT UNE GARE ROUTIÈRE.IL AMNARDIGAD LE TIRAN
HUITHUIT
DANS L’ATTENTE DU LENDEMAIN, ILS NE POUVAIENT SE DÉFENDRE D’UNE VIVE ÉMOTIONDANS L'ATTENTE DU LENDEMAIN IL NE POUVAIT SE DÉFENDRE DUNE VIVE ÉMOTION
LA PREMIÈRE SAISON EST COMPOSÉE DE DOUZE ÉPISODES.LA PREMIÈRE SAISON EST COMPOSÉE DE DOUZE ÉPISODES
ELLE SE TROUVE ÉGALEMENT DANS LES ÎLES BRITANNIQUES.ELLE SE TROUVE ÉGALEMENT DANS LES ÎLES BRITANNIQUES
ZÉROZEGO

Evaluation

  1. To evaluate on mozilla-foundation/common_voice_6_0 with split test
python eval.py --model_id jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-french --dataset mozilla-foundation/common_voice_6_0 --config fr --split test
  1. To evaluate on speech-recognition-community-v2/dev_data
python eval.py --model_id jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-french --dataset speech-recognition-community-v2/dev_data --config fr --split validation --chunk_length_s 5.0 --stride_length_s 1.0

Citation

If you want to cite this model you can use this:

@misc{grosman2021xlsr53-large-french,
  title={Fine-tuned {XLSR}-53 large model for speech recognition in {F}rench},
  author={Grosman, Jonatas},
  howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-french}},
  year={2021}
}

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
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice frTest WER17.650
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice frTest CER4.890
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice frTest WER (+LM)13.590
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice frTest CER (+LM)3.910
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev WER34.350
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev CER14.090
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev WER (+LM)24.720
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev CER (+LM)12.330

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys jonatasgrosman-wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-french for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (jonatasgrosman-wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-french 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="jonatasgrosman-wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-french" -F file=@audio.mp3

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