Model reference · open weights
wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala is an open-weight audio or speech model from softcatala. 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 | softcatala |
|---|---|
| Type | Audio & music |
| Task | Speech→text |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2022-03-02 |
| Popularity | 751k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on Catalan language using the Common Voice and ParlamentParla datasets.
Attention: The split train/dev/test used does not fully map with the CommonVoice 6.1 dataset. A custom split was used combining both the CommonVoice and ParlamentParla dataset and can be found here. Evaluating on the CV test dataset will produce a biased WER as 1144 audio files of that dataset were used in training/evaluation of this model. WER was calculated using this test.csv which was not seen by the model during training/evaluation.
You can find training and evaluation scripts in the github repository ccoreilly/wav2vec2-catala
When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz.
Word error rate was evaluated on the following datasets unseen by the model:
| Dataset | WER |
|---|---|
| Test split CV+ParlamentParla | 6.92% |
| Google Crowsourced Corpus | 12.99% |
| Audiobook “La llegenda de Sant Jordi” | 13.23% |
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", "ca", split="test[:2%]")
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("ccoreilly/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("ccoreilly/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala")
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):
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])
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 | — | Test WER | 6.920 |
| Speech Recognition | — | Google Crowsourced Corpus WER | 12.990 |
| Speech Recognition | — | Audiobook “La llegenda de Sant Jordi” WER | 13.230 |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala 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-catala" -F file=@audio.mp3
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