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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-italian

Available as managed deployment Audio jonatasgrosman · community Speech→text 1 variants 3k dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-italian 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
Popularity3k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-italian is

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on Italian 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-italian")
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 = "it"
MODEL_ID = "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-italian"
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
POI LEI MORÌ.POI LEI MORÌ
IL LIBRO HA SUSCITATO MOLTE POLEMICHE A CAUSA DEI SUOI CONTENUTI.IL LIBRO HA SUSCITATO MOLTE POLEMICHE A CAUSA DEI SUOI CONTENUTI
"FIN DALL'INIZIO LA SEDE EPISCOPALE È STATA IMMEDIATAMENTE SOGGETTA ALLA SANTA SEDE."FIN DALL'INIZIO LA SEDE EPISCOPALE È STATA IMMEDIATAMENTE SOGGETTA ALLA SANTA SEDE
IL VUOTO ASSOLUTO?IL VUOTO ASSOLUTO
DOPO ALCUNI ANNI, EGLI DECISE DI TORNARE IN INDIA PER RACCOGLIERE ALTRI INSEGNAMENTI.DOPO ALCUNI ANNI EGLI DECISE DI TORNARE IN INDIA PER RACCOGLIERE ALTRI INSEGNAMENTI
SALVATION SUESALVATION SOO
IN QUESTO MODO, DECIO OTTENNE IL POTERE IMPERIALE.IN QUESTO MODO DECHO OTTENNE IL POTERE IMPERIALE
SPARTA NOVARA ACQUISISCE IL TITOLO SPORTIVO PER GIOCARE IN PRIMA CATEGORIA.PARCANOVARACFILISCE IL TITOLO SPORTIVO PER GIOCARE IN PRIMA CATEGORIA
IN SEGUITO, KYGO E SHEAR HANNO PROPOSTO DI CONTINUARE A LAVORARE SULLA CANZONE.IN SEGUITO KIGO E SHIAR HANNO PROPOSTO DI CONTINUARE A LAVORARE SULLA CANZONE
ALAN CLARKEALAN CLARK

Evaluation

  1. To evaluate on mozilla-foundation/common_voice_6_0 with split test
python eval.py --model_id jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-italian --dataset mozilla-foundation/common_voice_6_0 --config it --split test
  1. To evaluate on speech-recognition-community-v2/dev_data
python eval.py --model_id jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-italian --dataset speech-recognition-community-v2/dev_data --config it --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-italian,
  title={Fine-tuned {XLSR}-53 large model for speech recognition in {I}talian},
  author={Grosman, Jonatas},
  howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-italian}},
  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 itTest WER9.410
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice itTest CER2.290
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice itTest WER (+LM)6.910
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice itTest CER (+LM)1.830
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev WER21.780
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev CER7.940
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev WER (+LM)15.820
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev CER (+LM)6.830

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

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