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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-bengali

Available as managed deployment Audio tanmoyio · community Speech→text 1 variants 911 dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-bengali is an open-weight audio or speech model from tanmoyio. 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 bytanmoyio
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity911 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-bengali is

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 Bengali using the Bengali ASR training data set containing ~196K utterances. When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz.

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Usage

Dataset must be downloaded from this website and preprocessed accordingly. For example 1250 test samples has been chosen.

import pandas as pd
test_dataset = pd.read_csv('utt_spk_text.tsv', sep='\\t', header=None)[60000:61250]
test_dataset.columns = ["audio_path", "__", "label"]
test_dataset = test_data.drop("__", axis=1)
def add_file_path(text):
  path = "data/" + text[:2] + "/" + text + '.flac'
  return path
test_dataset['audio_path'] = test_dataset['audio_path'].map(lambda x: add_file_path(x))

The model can be used directly (without a language model) as follows:

import torch
import torchaudio
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("tanmoyio/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-bengali")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("tanmoyio/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-bengali")
resampler = torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000)
# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the aduio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
  speech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["audio_path"])
  batch["speech"] = resampler(speech_array).squeeze().numpy()
  return batch
test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)
inputs = processor(test_dataset["speech"][:2], 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)
print("Prediction:", processor.batch_decode(predicted_ids))
print("Reference:", test_dataset["label"][:2])

Evaluation

The model can be evaluated as follows on the Bengali test data of OpenSLR.

import torch
import torchaudio
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
import re
wer = load_metric("wer")
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("tanmoyio/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-bengali")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("tanmoyio/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-bengali")
model.to("cuda")
resampler = torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000)
# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the aduio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
  batch["sentence"] = re.sub(chars_to_ignore_regex, '', batch["label"]).lower()
  speech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
  batch["speech"] = resampler(speech_array).squeeze().numpy()
  return batch
test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)
# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the aduio files as arrays
def evaluate(batch):
  inputs = processor(batch["speech"], sampling_rate=16_000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
  with torch.no_grad():
      logits = model(inputs.input_values.to("cuda"), attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask.to("cuda")).logits
      pred_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
      batch["pred_strings"] = processor.batch_decode(pred_ids)
      return batch
result = test_dataset.map(evaluate, batched=True, batch_size=8)
print("WER: {:2f}".format(100 * wer.compute(predictions=result["pred_strings"], references=result["sentence"])))

Test Result: 88.58 %

Training

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
Speech RecognitionOpenSLRTest WER88.580

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

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