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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-telugu

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-telugu is an open-weight audio or speech model from anuragshas, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

Audio anuragshas 1 variants 1.5M downloads/mo
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About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-telugu is

Wav2Vec2-Large-XLSR-53-Telugu Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on Telugu using the OpenSLR SLR66 dataset. When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz. Usage The model can be used directly (without a language model) as follows: Evaluation Test Result: 44.98% Training 70% of the OpenSLR Telugu dataset was used for training. Train Split of annotations is here Test Split of annotations is here Training Data Preparation notebook can be found here Training notebook can be foundhere Evaluation notebook is here

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makeranuragshas
TypeAudio & music
Variants1
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity1.5M downloads / month
Likes5
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How audio & music work

Audio or textinputAudio modelrecognise / synthesiseText or audiooutputSpeech-to-text turns audio into text; text-to-speech and music models turn text into audio.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-teluguBF16Weights ↗

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
Speech RecognitionOpenSLR teTest WER44.98

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

te

Trained / evaluated on

openslr

Tags

transformers pytorch jax wav2vec2 automatic-speech-recognition audio speech xlsr-fine-tuning-week te dataset:openslr model-index endpoints_compatible deploy:azure

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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