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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-malayalam

Available as managed deployment Audio gvs · community Speech→text 1 variants 785k dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-malayalam is an open-weight audio or speech model from gvs. 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 bygvs
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity785k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-xlsr-malayalam is

Usage

The model can be used directly (without a language model) as follows:

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

test_dataset =  # Details on loading this dataset in the evaluation section

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("gvs/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-malayalam")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("gvs/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-malayalam")

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"])

Evaluation

The model can be evaluated as follows on the test data of combined custom dataset. For more details on dataset preparation, check the notebooks mentioned at the end of this file.

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

# The custom dataset needs to be created using notebook mentioned at the end of this file
data_dir = Path('')

dataset_folders = {
    'iiit': 'iiit_mal_abi',
    'openslr': 'openslr',
    'indic-tts': 'indic-tts-ml',
    'msc-reviewed': 'msc-reviewed-speech-v1.0+20200825',
}

# Set directories for datasets
openslr_male_dir = data_dir / dataset_folders['openslr'] / 'male'
openslr_female_dir = data_dir / dataset_folders['openslr'] / 'female'
iiit_dir = data_dir / dataset_folders['iiit']
indic_tts_male_dir = data_dir / dataset_folders['indic-tts'] / 'male'
indic_tts_female_dir = data_dir / dataset_folders['indic-tts'] / 'female'
msc_reviewed_dir = data_dir / dataset_folders['msc-reviewed']

# Load the datasets
openslr_male = load_dataset("json", data_files=[f"{str(openslr_male_dir.absolute())}/sample_{i}.json" for i in range(2023)], split="train")
openslr_female = load_dataset("json", data_files=[f"{str(openslr_female_dir.absolute())}/sample_{i}.json" for i in range(2103)], split="train")
iiit = load_dataset("json", data_files=[f"{str(iiit_dir.absolute())}/sample_{i}.json" for i in range(1000)], split="train")
indic_tts_male = load_dataset("json", data_files=[f"{str(indic_tts_male_dir.absolute())}/sample_{i}.json" for i in range(5649)], split="train")
indic_tts_female = load_dataset("json", data_files=[f"{str(indic_tts_female_dir.absolute())}/sample_{i}.json" for i in range(2950)], split="train")
msc_reviewed = load_dataset("json", data_files=[f"{str(msc_reviewed_dir.absolute())}/sample_{i}.json" for i in range(1541)], split="train")

# Create test split as 20%, set random seed as well.
test_size = 0.2
random_seed=1
openslr_male_splits = openslr_male.train_test_split(test_size=test_size, seed=random_seed)
openslr_female_splits = openslr_female.train_test_split(test_size=test_size, seed=random_seed)
iiit_splits = iiit.train_test_split(test_size=test_size, seed=random_seed)
indic_tts_male_splits = indic_tts_male.train_test_split(test_size=test_size, seed=random_seed)
indic_tts_female_splits = indic_tts_female.train_test_split(test_size=test_size, seed=random_seed)
msc_reviewed_splits = msc_reviewed.train_test_split(test_size=test_size, seed=random_seed)

# Get combined test dataset
split_list = [openslr_male_splits, openslr_female_splits, indic_tts_male_splits, indic_tts_female_splits, msc_reviewed_splits, iiit_splits]
test_dataset = datasets.concatenate_datasets([split['test'] for split in split_list)

wer = load_metric("wer")

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

resamplers = {
    48000: torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000),
}

chars_to_ignore_regex = '[\\\\,\\\\?\\\\.\\\\!\\\\-\\\\;\\\\:\\\\"\\\\“\\\\%\\\\‘\\\\”\\\\�Utrnle\\\\_]'
unicode_ignore_regex = r'[\\\\u200e]'

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
    batch["sentence"] = re.sub(chars_to_ignore_regex, '', batch["sentence"])
    batch["sentence"] = re.sub(unicode_ignore_regex, '', batch["sentence"])
    speech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
    # Resample if its not in 16kHz
    if sampling_rate != 16000:
        batch["speech"] = resamplers[sampling_rate](speech_array).squeeze().numpy()
    else:
        batch["speech"] = speech_array.squeeze().numpy()
    # If more than one dimension is present, pick first one
    if batch["speech"].ndim > 1:
        batch["speech"] = batch["speech"][0]
    return batch

test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio 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 (WER): 28.43 %

Training

The notebook used for training and evaluation can be found [here](https://github.com/gautham

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 split of combined dataset using all datasets mentioned aboveTest WER28.430

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-malayalam" -F file=@audio.mp3

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