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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala

Available as managed deployment Audio softcatala Speech→text 1 variants 751k dl/mo

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 bysoftcatala
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity751k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala is

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.

Read the full model card

Results

Word error rate was evaluated on the following datasets unseen by the model:

DatasetWER
Test split CV+ParlamentParla6.92%
Google Crowsourced Corpus12.99%
Audiobook “La llegenda de Sant Jordi”13.23%

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", "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

Reported results

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

TaskDatasetMetricScore
Speech RecognitionTest WER6.920
Speech RecognitionGoogle Crowsourced Corpus WER12.990
Speech RecognitionAudiobook “La llegenda de Sant Jordi” WER13.230

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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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