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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-l2-arctic-phoneme

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

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-l2-arctic-phoneme is an open-weight audio or speech model from mrrubino. 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 bymrrubino
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-01-09
Popularity1k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-l2-arctic-phoneme is

This model is Wav2Vec2-Large-XLSR-53 fine-tuned on the manually annotated subset of CMU's L2-Arctic dataset. It was fine-tuned to perform automatic phonetic transcriptions in IPA. It was tuned following a similar procedure as described by vitouphy with the TIMIT dataset.

Read the full model card

Usage

To use the model, create a pipeline and invoke it with the path to your WAV, which must be sampled at 16KHz.

from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline(model="mrrubino/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-l2-arctic-phoneme")
transcription = pipe("file.wav")["text"]

Results

The manually annotated subset of L2-Arctic was divided into training and testing datasets with a 90/10 split. The performance metrics for the testing dataset are included below.

WER - 0.425

CER - 0.128

Citation

If you find our model helpful, please feel free to cite us.

@article{Bo_Rubino_Xu_2024,
  title={A Mispronunciation-Based Voice-Omics Representation Framework for Screening Specific Language Impairments in Children},
  DOI={10.1109/ichi61247.2024.00045},
  journal={2024 IEEE 12th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)},
  author={Bo, Wei and Rubino, Matthew and Xu, Wenyao},
  year={2024},
  month={Jun},
  pages={294–304}
}

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-l2-arctic-phoneme for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-l2-arctic-phoneme 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-l2-arctic-phoneme" -F file=@audio.mp3

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