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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-german

Available as managed deployment Audio jonatasgrosman · community Speech→text 1 variants 119k dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-german 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.

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

What it is

Released byjonatasgrosman
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity119k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-german is

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on German 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-german")
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 = "de"
MODEL_ID = "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-german"
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
ZIEHT EUCH BITTE DRAUSSEN DIE SCHUHE AUS.ZIEHT EUCH BITTE DRAUSSEN DIE SCHUHE AUS
ES KOMMT ZUM SHOWDOWN IN GSTAAD.ES KOMMT ZUG STUNDEDAUTENESTERKT
IHRE FOTOSTRECKEN ERSCHIENEN IN MODEMAGAZINEN WIE DER VOGUE, HARPER’S BAZAAR UND MARIE CLAIRE.IHRE FOTELSTRECKEN ERSCHIENEN MIT MODEMAGAZINEN WIE DER VALG AT DAS BASIN MA RIQUAIR
FELIPE HAT EINE AUCH FÜR MONARCHEN UNGEWÖHNLICH LANGE TITELLISTE.FELIPPE HAT EINE AUCH FÜR MONACHEN UNGEWÖHNLICH LANGE TITELLISTE
ER WURDE ZU EHREN DES REICHSKANZLERS OTTO VON BISMARCK ERRICHTET.ER WURDE ZU EHREN DES REICHSKANZLERS OTTO VON BISMARCK ERRICHTET M
WAS SOLLS, ICH BIN BEREIT.WAS SOLL'S ICH BIN BEREIT
DAS INTERNET BESTEHT AUS VIELEN COMPUTERN, DIE MITEINANDER VERBUNDEN SIND.DAS INTERNET BESTEHT AUS VIELEN COMPUTERN DIE MITEINANDER VERBUNDEN SIND
DER URANUS IST DER SIEBENTE PLANET IN UNSEREM SONNENSYSTEM.DER URANUS IST DER SIEBENTE PLANET IN UNSEREM SONNENSYSTEM
DIE WAGEN ERHIELTEN EIN EINHEITLICHES ERSCHEINUNGSBILD IN WEISS MIT ROTEM FENSTERBAND.DIE WAGEN ERHIELTEN EIN EINHEITLICHES ERSCHEINUNGSBILD IN WEISS MIT ROTEM FENSTERBAND
SIE WAR DIE COUSINE VON CARL MARIA VON WEBER.SIE WAR DIE COUSINE VON KARL-MARIA VON WEBER

Evaluation

  1. To evaluate on mozilla-foundation/common_voice_6_0 with split test
python eval.py --model_id jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-german --dataset mozilla-foundation/common_voice_6_0 --config de --split test
  1. To evaluate on speech-recognition-community-v2/dev_data
python eval.py --model_id jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-german --dataset speech-recognition-community-v2/dev_data --config de --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-german,
  title={Fine-tuned {XLSR}-53 large model for speech recognition in {G}erman},
  author={Grosman, Jonatas},
  howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-german}},
  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 deTest WER12.060
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice deTest CER2.920
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice deTest WER (+LM)8.740
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice deTest CER (+LM)2.280
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev WER32.750
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev CER13.640
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev WER (+LM)26.600
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev CER (+LM)12.580

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

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