Model reference · open weights
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.
Summary of the facebook/wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | Meta |
|---|---|
| Released | 2022-04-18 |
| Parameters | 593M |
| VRAM | 1.2 GB 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
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.
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)
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" |
|---|---|
| 1.96 | 3.98 |
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
Benchmarks
As published on the model card: the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic Speech Recognition | LibriSpeech (clean) | Test WER | 1.960 |
| Automatic Speech Recognition | LibriSpeech (other) | Test WER | 3.980 |