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wav2vec2-large-xls-r-bg

Available as managed deployment Audio anuragshas · community Speech→text 1 variants 1k dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xls-r-bg is an open-weight audio or speech model from anuragshas. 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 byanuragshas
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity1k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xls-r-bg is

This model is a fine-tuned version of facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m on the MOZILLA-FOUNDATION/COMMON_VOICE_8_0 - BG dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:

  • Loss: 0.2473
  • Wer: 0.3002
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Model description

More information needed

Intended uses & limitations

More information needed

Training and evaluation data

More information needed

Training procedure

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

  • learning_rate: 7.5e-05
  • train_batch_size: 32
  • eval_batch_size: 16
  • seed: 42
  • optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
  • lr_scheduler_type: linear
  • lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 1000
  • num_epochs: 50.0
  • mixed_precision_training: Native AMP

Training results

Training LossEpochStepValidation LossWer
3.15893.484003.08301.0
2.89216.968002.66050.9982
1.304910.4312000.50690.5707
1.134913.9116000.41590.5041
1.068617.3920000.38150.4746
0.99920.8724000.35410.4343
0.94524.3528000.32660.4132
0.905827.8332000.29690.3771
0.867231.336000.28020.3553
0.831334.7840000.26620.3380
0.806838.2644000.25280.3181
0.779641.7448000.25370.3073
0.762145.2252000.25030.3036
0.761148.756000.24770.2991

Framework versions

  • Transformers 4.17.0.dev0
  • Pytorch 1.10.2+cu102
  • Datasets 1.18.2.dev0
  • Tokenizers 0.11.0
Evaluation Commands
  1. To evaluate on mozilla-foundation/common_voice_8_0 with split test
python eval.py --model_id anuragshas/wav2vec2-large-xls-r-300m-bg --dataset mozilla-foundation/common_voice_8_0 --config bg --split test
  1. To evaluate on speech-recognition-community-v2/dev_data
python eval.py --model_id anuragshas/wav2vec2-large-xls-r-300m-bg --dataset speech-recognition-community-v2/dev_data --config bg --split validation --chunk_length_s 5.0 --stride_length_s 1.0

Inference With LM

import torch
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import AutoModelForCTC, AutoProcessor
import torchaudio.functional as F
model_id = "anuragshas/wav2vec2-large-xls-r-300m-bg"
sample_iter = iter(load_dataset("mozilla-foundation/common_voice_8_0", "bg", split="test", streaming=True, use_auth_token=True))
sample = next(sample_iter)
resampled_audio = F.resample(torch.tensor(sample["audio"]["array"]), 48_000, 16_000).numpy()
model = AutoModelForCTC.from_pretrained(model_id)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
input_values = processor(resampled_audio, return_tensors="pt").input_values
with torch.no_grad():
    logits = model(input_values).logits
transcription = processor.batch_decode(logits.numpy()).text
# => "и надутият му ката блоонкурем взе да се събира"

Eval results on Common Voice 8 "test" (WER):

Without LMWith LM (run ./eval.py)
30.0721.195

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

Benchmarks

Reported results

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

TaskDatasetMetricScore
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice 8Test WER21.195
Automatic Speech RecognitionCommon Voice 8Test CER4.786
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataTest WER32.667
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Dev DataTest CER12.452
Automatic Speech RecognitionRobust Speech Event - Test DataTest WER31.030

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

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