Model reference · open weights
wav2vec2-large-xls-r-welsh is an open-weight audio or speech model from infinitejoy. 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 by | infinitejoy |
|---|---|
| Type | Audio & music |
| Task | Speech→text |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2022-03-02 |
| Popularity | 574k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
This model is a fine-tuned version of facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m on the MOZILLA-FOUNDATION/COMMON_VOICE_7_0 - CY dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:
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The following hyperparameters were used during training:
| Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | Wer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.3454 | 8.2 | 3000 | 0.4926 | 0.5703 |
| 1.1202 | 16.39 | 6000 | 0.3529 | 0.3944 |
| 1.0058 | 24.59 | 9000 | 0.3143 | 0.3341 |
| 0.9287 | 32.79 | 12000 | 0.2896 | 0.2980 |
| 0.8849 | 40.98 | 15000 | 0.2727 | 0.2798 |
| 0.8665 | 49.18 | 18000 | 0.2662 | 0.2696 |
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Benchmarks
As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic Speech Recognition | Common Voice 7 | Test WER | 31.003 |
| Automatic Speech Recognition | Common Voice 7 | Test CER | 7.775 |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys wav2vec2-large-xls-r-welsh for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (wav2vec2-large-xls-r-welsh 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-welsh" -F file=@audio.mp3
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