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wav2vec2-large-100k-voxpopuli

Available as managed deployment Licence fee Audio facebook Speech→text 1 variants 1k dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-100k-voxpopuli is an open-weight audio or speech model from facebook. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released byMeta
Published underfacebook
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity1k downloads / month
LicenceCommercial licence needed

About

What wav2vec2-large-100k-voxpopuli is

Facebook's Wav2Vec2 large model pretrained on the 100k unlabeled subset of VoxPopuli corpus.

Note: This model does not have a tokenizer as it was pretrained on audio alone. In order to use this model speech recognition, a tokenizer should be created and the model should be fine-tuned on labeled text data. Check out this blog for more in-detail explanation of how to fine-tune the model.

Paper: VoxPopuli: A Large-Scale Multilingual Speech Corpus for Representation Learning, Semi-Supervised Learning and Interpretation

Authors: Changhan Wang, Morgane Riviere, Ann Lee, Anne Wu, Chaitanya Talnikar, Daniel Haziza, Mary Williamson, Juan Pino, Emmanuel Dupoux from Facebook AI

See the official website for more information, here

Read the full model card

Fine-Tuning

Please refer to this blog on how to fine-tune this model on a specific language. Note that you should replace "facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53" with this checkpoint for fine-tuning.

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys wav2vec2-large-100k-voxpopuli for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (wav2vec2-large-100k-voxpopuli 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-large-100k-voxpopuli" -F file=@audio.mp3

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.

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