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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-spanish

Available as managed deployment Audio jonatasgrosman · community Speech→text 1 variants 114k dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-spanish 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
Popularity114k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-spanish is

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on Spanish 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

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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-spanish")
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 = "es"
MODEL_ID = "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-spanish"
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
HABITA EN AGUAS POCO PROFUNDAS Y ROCOSAS.HABITAN AGUAS POCO PROFUNDAS Y ROCOSAS
OPERA PRINCIPALMENTE VUELOS DE CABOTAJE Y REGIONALES DE CARGA.OPERA PRINCIPALMENTE VUELO DE CARBOTAJES Y REGIONALES DE CARGAN
PARA VISITAR CONTACTAR PRIMERO CON LA DIRECCIÓN.PARA VISITAR CONTACTAR PRIMERO CON LA DIRECCIÓN
TRESTRES
REALIZÓ LOS ESTUDIOS PRIMARIOS EN FRANCIA, PARA CONTINUAR LUEGO EN ESPAÑA.REALIZÓ LOS ESTUDIOS PRIMARIOS EN FRANCIA PARA CONTINUAR LUEGO EN ESPAÑA
EN LOS AÑOS QUE SIGUIERON, ESTE TRABAJO ESPARTA PRODUJO DOCENAS DE BUENOS JUGADORES.EN LOS AÑOS QUE SIGUIERON ESTE TRABAJO ESPARTA PRODUJO DOCENA DE BUENOS JUGADORES
SE ESTÁ TRATANDO DE RECUPERAR SU CULTIVO EN LAS ISLAS CANARIAS.SE ESTÓ TRATANDO DE RECUPERAR SU CULTIVO EN LAS ISLAS CANARIAS
"FUE ""SACADA"" DE LA SERIE EN EL EPISODIO ""LEAD"", EN QUE ALEXANDRA CABOT REGRESÓ."FUE SACADA DE LA SERIE EN EL EPISODIO LEED EN QUE ALEXANDRA KAOT REGRESÓ
SE UBICAN ESPECÍFICAMENTE EN EL VALLE DE MOKA, EN LA PROVINCIA DE BIOKO SUR.SE UBICAN ESPECÍFICAMENTE EN EL VALLE DE MOCA EN LA PROVINCIA DE PÍOCOSUR

Evaluation

  1. To evaluate on mozilla-foundation/common_voice_6_0 with split test
python eval.py --model_id jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-spanish --dataset mozilla-foundation/common_voice_6_0 --config es --split test
  1. To evaluate on speech-recognition-community-v2/dev_data
python eval.py --model_id jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-spanish --dataset speech-recognition-community-v2/dev_data --config es --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-spanish,
  title={Fine-tuned {XLSR}-53 large model for speech recognition in {S}panish},
  author={Grosman, Jonatas},
  howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-spanish}},
  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 esTest WER8.820
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice esTest CER2.580
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice esTest WER (+LM)6.270
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice esTest CER (+LM)2.060
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev WER30.190
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev CER13.560
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev WER (+LM)24.710
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataDev CER (+LM)12.610

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

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