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wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self is an open-weight audio or speech model from Meta. wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self (BF16) weighs 1.3 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self is an automatic speech recognition model developed by Meta and published as facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self. It is designed for English speech and was pretrained and fine-tuned on 960 hours of Libri-Light and Librispeech audio sampled at 16kHz. The model utilizes a self-training objective and is distributed under the apache-2.0 license.
Summary of the facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | Meta |
|---|---|
| Published under | |
| Type | Audio & music |
| Task | Speech→text |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2022-03-02 |
| Popularity | 104k downloads / month |
| Weights | 1.3 GB (wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self (BF16), file size) |
| Licence | Open weights |
What it runs on
Weights 1.3 GB (file size) · overhead about 1.6 GB.
| Card | One stream | Counted 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 |
Estimates, not measurements: the weights are the build's file size. A speech model's decoder keeps a small cache for every stream it transcribes, so memory grows with the streams and beams at once. Counted memory is 92 % of what CUDA reports for the card.
From the model card
The large model pretrained and fine-tuned on 960 hours of Libri-Light and Librispeech on 16kHz sampled speech audio. Model was trained with Self-Training objective. When using the model make sure that your speech input is also sampled at 16Khz.
Authors: Alexei Baevski, Henry Zhou, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Michael Auli
Abstract
We show for the first time that learning powerful representations from speech audio alone followed by fine-tuning on transcribed speech can outperform the best semi-supervised methods while being conceptually simpler. wav2vec 2.0 masks the speech input in the latent space and solves a contrastive task defined over a quantization of the latent representations which are jointly learned. Experiments using all labeled data of Librispeech achieve 1.8/3.3 WER on the clean/other test sets. When lowering the amount of labeled data to one hour, wav2vec 2.0 outperforms the previous state of the art on the 100 hour subset while using 100 times less labeled data. Using just ten minutes of labeled data and pre-training on 53k hours of unlabeled data still achieves 4.8/8.2 WER. This demonstrates the feasibility of speech recognition with limited amounts of labeled data.
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, Wav2Vec2ForCTC
from datasets import load_dataset
import torch
# load model and processor
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self")
# 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-large-960h-lv60-self on LibriSpeech's "clean" and "other" test data.
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
import torch
from jiwer import wer
librispeech_eval = load_dataset("librispeech_asr", "clean", split="test")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self").to("cuda")
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self")
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" |
|---|---|
| 1.9 | 3.9 |
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 | 1.900 |
| Automatic Speech Recognition | LibriSpeech (other) | Test WER | 3.900 |