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sepformer-whamr16k is an open-weight audio or speech model from speechbrain. sepformer-whamr16k (BF16) weighs 113 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the speechbrain/sepformer-whamr16k model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | speechbrain |
|---|---|
| Released | 2022-03-02 |
| VRAM | 113 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | One stream | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From the model card
This repository provides all the necessary tools to perform audio source separation with a SepFormer model, implemented with SpeechBrain, and pretrained on WHAMR! dataset with 16k sampling frequency, which is basically a version of WSJ0-Mix dataset with environmental noise and reverberation in 16k. For a better experience we encourage you to learn more about SpeechBrain. The given model performance is 13.5 dB SI-SNRi on the test set of WHAMR! dataset.
| Release | Test-Set SI-SNRi | Test-Set SDRi |
|---|---|---|
| 30-03-21 | 13.5 dB | 13.0 dB |
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.
from speechbrain.inference.separation import SepformerSeparation as separator
import torchaudio
model = separator.from_hparams(source="speechbrain/sepformer-whamr16k", savedir='pretrained_models/sepformer-whamr16k')
# for custom file, change path
est_sources = model.separate_file(path='speechbrain/sepformer-whamr16k/test_mixture16k.wav')
torchaudio.save("source1hat.wav", est_sources[:, :, 0].detach().cpu(), 16000)
torchaudio.save("source2hat.wav", est_sources[:, :, 1].detach().cpu(), 16000)
The system expects input recordings sampled at 16kHz (single channel). If your signal has a different sample rate, resample it (e.g, using torchaudio or sox) before using the interface.
To perform inference on the GPU, add run_opts={"device":"cuda"} when calling the from_hparams method.
The model was trained with SpeechBrain (fc2eabb7). To train it from scratch follows these steps:
git clone https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/
cd speechbrain
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
cd recipes/WHAMandWHAMR/separation/
python train.py hparams/sepformer-whamr.yaml --data_folder=your_data_folder --sample_rate=16000
You can find our training results (models, logs, etc) here.
The SpeechBrain team does not provide any warranty on the performance achieved by this model when used on other datasets.
@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}
}
@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}
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
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