Model reference · open weights
wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-italian 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 by | Meta |
|---|---|
| Published under | |
| Type | Audio & music |
| Task | Speech→text |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2022-03-02 |
| Popularity | 2k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
import torchaudio
from datasets import load_dataset, load_metric
from transformers import (
Wav2Vec2ForCTC,
Wav2Vec2Processor,
)
import torch
import re
import sys
model_name = "facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-italian"
device = "cuda"
chars_to_ignore_regex = '[\,\?\.\!\-\;\:\"]' # noqa: W605
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(model_name).to(device)
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(model_name)
ds = load_dataset("common_voice", "it", split="test", data_dir="./cv-corpus-6.1-2020-12-11")
resampler = torchaudio.transforms.Resample(orig_freq=48_000, new_freq=16_000)
def map_to_array(batch):
speech, _ = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
batch["speech"] = resampler.forward(speech.squeeze(0)).numpy()
batch["sampling_rate"] = resampler.new_freq
batch["sentence"] = re.sub(chars_to_ignore_regex, '', batch["sentence"]).lower().replace("’", "'")
return batch
ds = ds.map(map_to_array)
def map_to_pred(batch):
features = processor(batch["speech"], sampling_rate=batch["sampling_rate"][0], padding=True, return_tensors="pt")
input_values = features.input_values.to(device)
attention_mask = features.attention_mask.to(device)
with torch.no_grad():
logits = model(input_values, attention_mask=attention_mask).logits
pred_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
batch["predicted"] = processor.batch_decode(pred_ids)
batch["target"] = batch["sentence"]
return batch
result = ds.map(map_to_pred, batched=True, batch_size=16, remove_columns=list(ds.features.keys()))
wer = load_metric("wer")
print(wer.compute(predictions=result["predicted"], references=result["target"]))
Result: 22.1 %
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Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-italian for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-italian 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-italian" -F file=@audio.mp3
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