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sepformer-whamr

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

sepformer-whamr 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
Released2022-03-02
Popularity1k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What sepformer-whamr is

This repository provides all the necessary tools to perform audio source separation with a SepFormer model, implemented with SpeechBrain, and pretrained on WHAMR! dataset, which is basically a version of WSJ0-Mix dataset with environmental noise and reverberation. For a better experience we encourage you to learn more about SpeechBrain. The model performance is 13.7 dB SI-SNRi on the test set of WHAMR! dataset.

ReleaseTest-Set SI-SNRiTest-Set SDRi
30-03-2113.7 dB12.7 dB

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 source separation on your own audio file

from speechbrain.inference.separation import SepformerSeparation as separator
import torchaudio

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

# for custom file, change path
est_sources = model.separate_file(path='speechbrain/sepformer-wsj02mix/test_mixture.wav')

torchaudio.save("source1hat.wav", est_sources[:, :, 0].detach().cpu(), 8000)
torchaudio.save("source2hat.wav", est_sources[:, :, 1].detach().cpu(), 8000)

The system expects input recordings sampled at 8kHz (single channel). If your signal has a different sample rate, resample it (e.g, using torchaudio or sox) before using the interface.

Inference on GPU

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

Training

The model was trained with SpeechBrain (e375cd13). To train it from scratch follows these steps:

  1. Clone SpeechBrain:
git clone https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/
  1. Install it:
cd speechbrain
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
  1. Run Training:
cd  recipes/WHAMandWHAMR/separation
python train.py hparams/sepformer-whamr.yaml --data_folder=YOUR_DATA_FOLDER --rir_path=YOUR_ROOM_IMPULSE_SAVE_PATH

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}
}

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-whamr for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (sepformer-whamr 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-whamr" -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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