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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-kn

Available as managed deployment Audio amoghsgopadi · community Speech→text 1 variants 392k dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-kn is an open-weight audio or speech model from amoghsgopadi. 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 byamoghsgopadi
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity392k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-kn is

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on Kannada using the OpenSLR SLR79 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, assuming you have a dataset with Kannada sentence and path fields:


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

# test_dataset = #TODO: WRITE YOUR CODE TO LOAD THE TEST DATASET. For a sample, see the Colab link in Training Section.

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("amoghsgopadi/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-kn")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("amoghsgopadi/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-kn")
resampler = torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000) # The original data was with 48,000 sampling rate. You can change it according to your input.

# 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])

Evaluation

The model can be evaluated as follows on 10% of the Kannada data on OpenSLR.


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

# test_dataset = #TODO: WRITE YOUR CODE TO LOAD THE TEST DATASET. For sample see the Colab link in Training Section.

wer = load_metric("wer")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("amoghsgopadi/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-kn")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("amoghsgopadi/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-kn")
model.to("cuda")

chars_to_ignore_regex = '[\,\?\.\!\-\;\:\"\“\%\‘\”\�\–\…]'
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: 27.08 %

Training

90% of the OpenSLR Kannada dataset was used for training.

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 RecognitionOpenSLR knTest WER27.080

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

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