We are open-sourcing our Conformer-based W2v-BERT 2.0 speech encoder as described in Section 3.2.1 of the paper, which is at the core of our Seamless models. This model was pre-trained on 4.5M hours of unlabeled audio data covering more than 143 languages. It requires finetuning to be used for downstream tasks such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), or Audio Classification. This model and its training are supported by Transformers, more on it in the docs. This is a bare checkpoint without any modeling head, and thus requires finetuning to be used for downstream tasks such as ASR. You can however use it to extract audio embeddings from the top layer with this code snippet: To learn more…


