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sepformer-wham16k-enhancement

Available as managed deployment Audio speechbrain Audio→audio 1 variants 2k dl/mo

sepformer-wham16k-enhancement is an open-weight audio or speech model from speechbrain. 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

Makerspeechbrain
TypeAudio & music
TaskAudio→audio
Runs withspeechbrain
Released2022-06-30
Popularity2k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What sepformer-wham16k-enhancement is

This repository provides all the necessary tools to perform speech enhancement (denoising) with a SepFormer model, implemented with SpeechBrain, and pretrained on WHAM! dataset with 16k sampling frequency, which is basically a version of WSJ0-Mix dataset with environmental noise and reverberation in 8k. For a better experience we encourage you to learn more about SpeechBrain. The given model performance is 14.3 dB SI-SNR on the test set of WHAM! dataset.

ReleaseTest-Set SI-SNRTest-Set PESQ
06-30-2213.82.20

Install SpeechBrain

First of all, please install SpeechBrain with the following command:

pip install speechbrain

Please notice that we encourage you to read our tutorials and learn more about SpeechBrain.

Perform speech enhancement on your own audio file

from speechbrain.pretrained import SepformerSeparation as separator
import torchaudio

model = separator.from_hparams(source="speechbrain/sepformer-wham16k-enhancement", savedir='pretrained_models/sepformer-wham16k-enhancement')

# for custom file, change path
est_sources = model.separate_file(path='speechbrain/sepformer-wham16k-enhancement/example_wham16k.wav')

torchaudio.save("enhanced_wham16k.wav", est_sources[:, :, 0].detach().cpu(), 16000)

Inference on GPU

To perform inference on the GPU, add run_opts={"device":"cuda"} when calling the from_hparams method.

Training

The training script is currently being worked on an ongoing pull-request.

We will update the model card as soon as the PR is merged.

You can find our training results (models, logs, etc) here.

Limitations

The SpeechBrain team does not provide any warranty on the performance achieved by this model when used on other datasets.

Referencing SpeechBrain

@misc{speechbrain,
  title={{SpeechBrain}: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkit},
  author={Mirco Ravanelli and Titouan Parcollet and Peter Plantinga and Aku Rouhe and Samuele Cornell and Loren Lugosch and Cem Subakan and Nauman Dawalatabad and Abdelwahab Heba and Jianyuan Zhong and Ju-Chieh Chou and Sung-Lin Yeh and Szu-Wei Fu and Chien-Feng Liao and Elena Rastorgueva and François Grondin and William Aris and Hwidong Na and Yan Gao and Renato De Mori and Yoshua Bengio},
  year={2021},
  eprint={2106.04624},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={eess.AS},
  note={arXiv:2106.04624}
}

Referencing SepFormer

@inproceedings{subakan2021attention,
      title={Attention is All You Need in Speech Separation},
      author={Cem Subakan and Mirco Ravanelli and Samuele Cornell and Mirko Bronzi and Jianyuan Zhong},
      year={2021},
      booktitle={ICASSP 2021}
}

@article{subakan2023exploring,
  author={Subakan, Cem and Ravanelli, Mirco and Cornell, Samuele and Grondin, François and Bronzi, Mirko},
  journal={IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
  title={Exploring Self-Attention Mechanisms for Speech Separation},
  year={2023},
  volume={31},
  pages={2169-2180},
}

About SpeechBrain

  • Website: https://speechbrain.github.io/
  • Code: https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/
  • HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/speechbrain/

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

How it works

How audio & music work

Audio or textinputAudio modelrecognise / synthesiseText or audiooutputSpeech-to-text turns audio into text; text-to-speech and music models turn text into audio.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys sepformer-wham16k-enhancement for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (sepformer-wham16k-enhancement 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="sepformer-wham16k-enhancement" -F file=@audio.mp3

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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