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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-sw

Available as managed deployment Audio alokmatta · community Speech→text 1 variants 511 dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-sw is an open-weight audio or speech model from alokmatta. 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 byalokmatta
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity511 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-sw is

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on Swahili using the following datasets:

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

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("alokmatta/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-sw")

model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("alokmatta/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-sw").to("cuda")

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

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

def load_file_to_data(file):
    batch = {}
    speech, _ = torchaudio.load(file)
    batch["speech"] = resampler.forward(speech.squeeze(0)).numpy()
    batch["sampling_rate"] = resampler.new_freq
    return batch

def predict(data):
    features = processor(data["speech"], sampling_rate=data["sampling_rate"], padding=True, return_tensors="pt")
    input_values = features.input_values.to("cuda")
    attention_mask = features.attention_mask.to("cuda")
    with torch.no_grad():
        logits = model(input_values, attention_mask=attention_mask).logits
    pred_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
    return processor.batch_decode(pred_ids)

predict(load_file_to_data('./demo.wav'))

Test Result: 40 %

Training

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

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