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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hebrew

Available as managed deployment Audio imvladikon · community Speech→text 1 variants 14k dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hebrew is an open-weight audio or speech model from imvladikon. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

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What it is

Released byimvladikon
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Parameters (lead)315M
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity14k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hebrew is

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on the several downloaded youtube samples. When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz.

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Usage

The model can be used directly (without a language model) as follows:

import torch
import torchaudio
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", "he", split="test[:2%]") # there is no common dataset for Hebrew, please, paste your data
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("imvladikon/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hebrew")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("imvladikon/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hebrew")
resampler = torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000)
# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the aduio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
  speech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
  batch["speech"] = resampler(speech_array).squeeze().numpy()
  return batch
test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)
inputs = processor(test_dataset["speech"][:2], sampling_rate=16_000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
with torch.no_grad():
  tlogits = model(inputs.input_values, attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask).logits
predicted_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
print("Prediction:", processor.batch_decode(predicted_ids))
print("Reference:", test_dataset["sentence"][:2])

Evaluation

The model can be evaluated as follows on some Hebrew test data

import torch
import torchaudio
from datasets import load_dataset, load_metric
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
import re
test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", "he", split="test") # there is no common dataset for Hebrew, please, paste your data
wer = load_metric("wer")
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("imvladikon/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hebrew")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("imvladikon/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hebrew").to("cuda")
chars_to_ignore_regex = '[\,\?\.\!\-\;\:\"\“\%\‘\”\�]'
resampler = torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000)
# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the aduio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
  batch["sentence"] = re.sub(chars_to_ignore_regex, '', batch["sentence"]).lower()
  speech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
  batch["speech"] = resampler(speech_array).squeeze().numpy()
  return batch
test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)
# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the aduio files as arrays
def evaluate(batch):
  inputs = processor(batch["speech"], sampling_rate=16_000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
  with torch.no_grad():
    logits = model(inputs.input_values.to("cuda"), attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask.to("cuda")).logits
  pred_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
  batch["pred_strings"] = processor.batch_decode(pred_ids)
  return batch
result = test_dataset.map(evaluate, batched=True, batch_size=8)
print("WER: {:2f}".format(100 * wer.compute(predictions=result["pred_strings"], references=result["sentence"])))

Test Result:

Example Predictions

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-xlsr-53-hebrew for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hebrew 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-xlsr-53-hebrew" -F file=@audio.mp3

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