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wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft

wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft is an open-weight audio or speech model from facebook, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

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What wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft is

Wav2Vec2-Conformer-Large-960h with Rotary Position Embeddings Wav2Vec2 Conformer with rotary position embeddings, pretrained and fine-tuned on 960 hours of Librispeech on 16kHz sampled speech audio. When using the model make sure that your speech input is also sampled at 16Khz. Paper: fairseq S2T: Fast Speech-to-Text Modeling with fairseq Authors: Changhan Wang, Yun Tang, Xutai Ma, Anne Wu, Sravya Popuri, Dmytro Okhonko, Juan Pino The results of Wav2Vec2-Conformer can be found in Table 3 and Table 4 of the official paper. The original model can be found under https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/master/examples/wav2vec#wav2vec-20. Usage To transcribe audio files the model can be used as a standalone acoustic model as follows: Evaluation This code snippet shows how to evaluate facebook/wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft on LibriSpeech's "clean" and "other" test data. Result (WER):

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makerfacebook
TypeAudio & music
Parameters (lead)593M
Variants1
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-04-18
Popularity202k downloads / month
Likes11
LicenceOpen weights

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.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft593MBF16~1.4 GBWeights ↗

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
Automatic Speech RecognitionLibriSpeech (clean)Test WER1.96
Automatic Speech RecognitionLibriSpeech (other)Test WER3.98

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft 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="wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft" -F file=@audio.mp3

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en

Trained / evaluated on

librispeech_asr

Tags

transformers pytorch safetensors wav2vec2-conformer automatic-speech-recognition speech audio hf-asr-leaderboard en dataset:librispeech_asr model-index eval-results endpoints_compatible

Papers

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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