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

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wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft is an open-weight audio or speech model from Meta. wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft (FP32) weighs 1.2 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft is an automatic speech recognition model developed by Meta that uses rotary position embeddings.
  • It was pretrained and fine-tuned on 960 hours of Librispeech data and operates on 16kHz sampled audio.
  • The model contains 593M parameters, supports English, and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Summary of the facebook/wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byMeta
Released2022-04-18
Parameters593M
VRAM1.2 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft (FP32)

1.2 GBweights, file size
1.6 GBruntime overhead
CardOne streamMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What Meta says about wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft

Read the model card

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:

 from transformers import Wav2Vec2Processor, Wav2Vec2ConformerForCTC
 from datasets import load_dataset
 import torch

 # load model and processor
 processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("facebook/wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft")
 model = Wav2Vec2ConformerForCTC.from_pretrained("facebook/wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft")

 # load dummy dataset and read soundfiles
 ds = load_dataset("patrickvonplaten/librispeech_asr_dummy", "clean", split="validation")

 # tokenize
 input_values = processor(ds[0]["audio"]["array"], return_tensors="pt", padding="longest").input_values

 # retrieve logits
 logits = model(input_values).logits

 # take argmax and decode
 predicted_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
 transcription = processor.batch_decode(predicted_ids)

Evaluation

This code snippet shows how to evaluate facebook/wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft on LibriSpeech's "clean" and "other" test data.

from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ConformerForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
import torch
from jiwer import wer

librispeech_eval = load_dataset("librispeech_asr", "clean", split="test")

model = Wav2Vec2ConformerForCTC.from_pretrained("facebook/wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft").to("cuda")
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("facebook/wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft")

def map_to_pred(batch):
    inputs = processor(batch["audio"]["array"], return_tensors="pt", padding="longest")
    input_values = inputs.input_values.to("cuda")
    attention_mask = inputs.attention_mask.to("cuda")

    with torch.no_grad():
        logits = model(input_values, attention_mask=attention_mask).logits

    predicted_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
    transcription = processor.batch_decode(predicted_ids)
    batch["transcription"] = transcription
    return batch

result = librispeech_eval.map(map_to_pred, remove_columns=["audio"])

print("WER:", wer(result["text"], result["transcription"]))

Result (WER):

"clean""other"
1.963.98

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

Benchmarks

Reported results

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

TaskDatasetMetricScore
Automatic Speech RecognitionLibriSpeech (clean)Test WER1.960
Automatic Speech RecognitionLibriSpeech (other)Test WER3.980
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