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w2v-bert-2.0

by AI at Meta facebook/w2v-bert-2.0

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.

Parameters580M
Context
Weights4.7 GB
Licensemit
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads2.2M

Runs On

What it takes to serve w2v-bert-2.0 (580M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 1.2 GB 1.4 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.6 GB 0.7 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.3 GB 0.3 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

SAVRN's Notes on w2v-bert-2.0

Speech goes in, features come out, and nothing happens until you bolt a head on. That is the job of this 580M-parameter Conformer encoder from AI at Meta, pre-trained on 4.5 million hours of unlabeled audio in more than 143 languages and shipped without a modeling head, so ASR or audio classification starts with a finetuning run. At 16-bit the weights take 1.2 GB with 1.4 GB needed, a rounding error on the cheapest priced card we list, one MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 an hour.

MIT is as light as a license gets: commercial use, modification and redistribution, provided the copyright and permission notices travel with the files, so a finetuned ASR head can ship in a product. Budget for the finetuning run rather than inference, and read arXiv:2312.05187 before assuming your language is covered among the 143; the files have not changed since January 2024.

Model Card

By AI at Meta, published under mit, revision da985ba0987f.

W2v-BERT 2.0 speech encoder

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.

Model Name #params checkpoint
W2v-BERT 2.0 600M checkpoint

This model and its training are supported by Transformers, more on it in thedocs.

Transformers usage

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:

Read the full model card (322 words)

Configuration

Architecture
Wav2Vec2BertModel
Layers
24
Hidden size
1,024
Feed-forward size
4,096
Attention heads
16
Stored precision
float32
Model type
wav2vec2-bert

Identity and Version

Repository
facebook/w2v-bert-2.0
Publisher
AI at Meta
Task
Feature extraction
Modality
Text
Library
transformers
Parameters
580M parameters
Languages
af, am, ar, as, az, be, bn, bs
Revision
da985ba0987f70aaeb84a80f2851cfac8c697a7b
First published
2023-12-19
Last updated
2024-01-25

Files and Weights

6 files, 4.7 GB in total. The weights are 2 files totalling 4.7 GB in pt, safetensors.

Weights2 files · 4.7 GB
Configuration2 files · 2.1 KB
Documentation1 file · 4.8 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
conformer_shaw.ptWeights2.3 GB 8310b4270a5b
model.safetensorsWeights2.3 GB eb890c9660ed
config.jsonConfiguration1.9 KB
preprocessor_config.jsonConfiguration275 B
README.mdDocumentation4.8 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.5 KB

License and Download

License
mit
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
4.7 GB
Download from AI at Meta

Released by AI at Meta through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published4.7 GB
16-bit1.2 GB
8-bit0.6 GB
4-bit0.3 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

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Questions About w2v-bert-2.0

How much GPU memory does w2v-bert-2.0 need?

About 1.4 GB at 16-bit and 0.3 GB at 4-bit: the weights (580M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run w2v-bert-2.0 on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use w2v-bert-2.0 commercially?

Yes. w2v-bert-2.0 is released under MIT License. The MIT License is a short permissive license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution, provided the copyright notice and permission notice are included.

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