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Wav2Vec2-large-xlsr-hindi

Wav2Vec2-large-xlsr-hindi is an open-weight audio or speech model from theainerd, 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.

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About

What Wav2Vec2-large-xlsr-hindi is

Wav2Vec2-Large-XLSR-53-hindi Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 hindi using the Multilingual and code-switching ASR challenges for low resource Indian languages. 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 The model can be evaluated as follows on the hindi test data of Common Voice. Test Result: 72.62 % Training The script used for training can be found Hindi ASR Fine Tuning Wav2Vec2

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

Specifications

What it is

Makertheainerd
TypeAudio & music
Parameters (lead)316M
Variants1
Runs withtransformers
Based onfacebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53
Released2022-03-02
Popularity1.2M downloads / month
Likes13
LicenceCommercial licence needed

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-hindi316MBF16~0.7 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

hi

Tags

transformers pytorch safetensors wav2vec2 automatic-speech-recognition hi doi:10.57967/hf/8134 endpoints_compatible

Licence

Commercial licence needed

The weights are open but its licence needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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