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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-lithuanian

Available as managed deployment Audio DeividasM · community Speech→text 1 variants 501 dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-lithuanian is an open-weight audio or speech model from DeividasM. 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 byDeividasM
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity501 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-lithuanian is

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 in Lithuanian using the Common Voice

When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz.

Read the full model card

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", "lt", split="test[:2%]")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("DeividasM/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-lithuanian")

model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("DeividasM/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-lithuanian")

resampler = torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000)

# Preprocessing the datasets.

# We need to read the audio files as arrays

def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):

\\tspeech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])

\\tbatch["speech"] = resampler(speech_array).squeeze().numpy()

\\treturn 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 the Lithuanian test data of Common Voice.


import torch

import torchaudio

from datasets import load_dataset, load_metric

from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor

import re

test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", "lt", split="test")

wer = load_metric("wer")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("DeividasM/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-lithuanian")

model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("DeividasM/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-lithuanian")

model.to("cuda")

chars_to_ignore_regex = '[\\\\,\\\\?\\\\.\\\\!\\\\-\\\\;\\\\:\\\\"\\\\“]'

resampler = torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000)

# Preprocessing the datasets.

# We need to read the audio files as arrays

def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):

\\tbatch["sentence"] = re.sub(chars_to_ignore_regex, '', batch["sentence"]).lower()

\\tspeech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])

\\tbatch["speech"] = resampler(speech_array).squeeze().numpy()

\\treturn batch

test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)

# Preprocessing the datasets.

# We need to read the audio files as arrays

def evaluate(batch):

\\tinputs = processor(batch["speech"], sampling_rate=16_000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)

\\twith torch.no_grad():

\\t\\tlogits = model(inputs.input_values.to("cuda"), attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask.to("cuda")).logits

    pred_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)

\\tbatch["pred_strings"] = processor.batch_decode(pred_ids)

\\treturn 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: 56.55 %

Training

The Common Voice train, validation datasets were used for training.

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
Speech RecognitionCommon Voice ltTest WER56.550

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

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