Model reference · open weights
wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish is an open-weight audio or speech model from KBLab. 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 | KBLab |
|---|---|
| Type | Audio & music |
| Task | Speech→text |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2022-03-02 |
| Popularity | 2k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 in Swedish using the NST Swedish Dictation. When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz.
Note: We recommend using our newer model wav2vec2-large-voxrex-swedish for the best performance.
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", "sv-SE", split="test[:2%]").
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("KBLab/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("KBLab/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish")
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():
logits = 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])
The model can be evaluated as follows on the Swedish 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", "sv-SE", split="test")
wer = load_metric("wer")
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("KBLab/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("KBLab/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish")
model.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"])))
print("CER: {:2f}".format(100 * wer.compute(predictions=[" ".join(list(entry)) for entry in result["pred_strings"]], references=[" ".join(list(entry)) for entry in result["sentence"]])))
WER: 14.298610% CER: 4.925294%
First the XLSR model was further pre-trained for 50 epochs with a corpus consisting of 1000 hours spoken Swedish from various radio stations. Secondly NST Swedish Dictation was used for fine tuning as well as Common Voice. Lastly only Common Voice dataset was used for final finetuning. The Fairseq scripts were used.
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Benchmarks
As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speech Recognition | Common Voice sv-SE | Test WER | 14.299 |
| Speech Recognition | Common Voice sv-SE | Test CER | 4.925 |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish 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-swedish" -F file=@audio.mp3
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