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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-gl

Available as managed deployment Audio diego-fustes · community Speech→text 1 variants 945 dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-gl is an open-weight audio or speech model from diego-fustes. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

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What it is

Released bydiego-fustes
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Parameters (lead)315M
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity945 downloads / month
LicenceUnknown

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-gl is


language: gl datasets:

  • OpenSLR 77 metrics:
  • wer tags:
  • audio
  • automatic-speech-recognition
  • speech
  • xlsr-fine-tuning-week license: apache-2.0 model-index:
  • name: Galician Wav2Vec2-Large-XLSR-53 results:
    • task: name: Speech Recognition type: automatic-speech-recognition dataset: name: OpenSLR type: openslr args: gl metrics:
      • name: Test WER type: wer value: 16.79

Wav2Vec2-Large-XLSR-53-galician

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on galician using the OpenSLR dataset

When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz.

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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", "gl", split="test[:2%]")  # This is not available yet, load OpenSLR or your dataset instead

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("diego-fustes/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-gl")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("diego-fustes/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-gl")

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])

Evaluation

The model can be evaluated as follows on the Galician test data of Common Voice (when it is released).

import torch
import torchaudio
from datasets import load_dataset, load_metric
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
import re

test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", "gl", split="test")   # This is not available yet, load OpenSLR or your dataset instead
wer = load_metric("wer")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("diego-fustes/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-gl")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("diego-fustes/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-gl")
model.to("cuda")

chars_to_ignore_regex = '[^a-záéíóúñ ]'
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"])))

Test Result: 16.79 % on OpenSLR split

Training

The OpenSLR SLR77 dataset was used for training and validation. The dataset was split as 70% for training, 15% for validation and 15% for testing

The script used for training can be found here

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

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  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -F model="wav2vec2-large-xlsr-gl" -F file=@audio.mp3

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