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wav2vec2-xlsr-nepali

by Gagan Bhatia gagan3012/wav2vec2-xlsr-nepali

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on Nepali using the Common Voice, and OpenSLR ne. When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz.

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Weights5.0 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
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By Gagan Bhatia, published under apache-2.0, revision d1dc1c34a3f2.

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on Nepali using the Common Voice, and OpenSLR ne. When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz. The model can be used directly (without a language model) as follows: Prediction: ['पारानाको ब्राजिली राज्यमा रहेको राजधानी', 'देवराज जोशी त्रिभुवन विश्वविद्यालयबाट शिक्षाशास्त्रमा स्नातक हुनुहुन्छ'] Reference: ['पारानाको ब्राजिली राज्यमा रहेको राजधानी', 'देवराज जोशी त्रिभुवन विश्वविद्यालयबाट शिक्षाशास्त्रमा स्नातक हुनुहुन्छ'] The model can be evaluated as follows on the {language} test data of Common Voice. # TODO: replace #TODO: replace language with your {language}, e.g. French The script used for training can be found…

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Wav2Vec2-Large-XLSR-53-Nepali

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on Nepali using the Common Voice, and OpenSLR ne.

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:

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

!wget https://www.openslr.org/resources/43/ne_np_female.zip
!unzip ne_np_female.zip
!ls ne_np_female

colnames=['path','sentence'] 
df  = pd.read_csv('/content/ne_np_female/line_index.tsv',sep='\\t',header=None,names = colnames)
df['path'] = '/content/ne_np_female/wavs/'+df['path'] +'.wav'

train, test = train_test_split(df, test_size=0.1)

test.to_csv('/content/ne_np_female/line_index_test.csv')

test_dataset = load_dataset('csv', data_files='/content/ne_np_female/line_index_test.csv',split = 'train')

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("gagan3012/wav2vec2-xlsr-nepali")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("gagan3012/wav2vec2-xlsr-nepali") 

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):
\tspeech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
\tbatch["speech"] = resampler(speech_array).squeeze().numpy()
\treturn 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():
\tlogits = 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])

Result

Prediction: ['पारानाको ब्राजिली राज्यमा रहेको राजधानी', 'देवराज जोशी त्रिभुवन विश्वविद्यालयबाट शिक्षाशास्त्रमा स्नातक हुनुहुन्छ']

Reference: ['पारानाको ब्राजिली राज्यमा रहेको राजधानी', 'देवराज जोशी त्रिभुवन विश्वविद्यालयबाट शिक्षाशास्त्रमा स्नातक हुनुहुन्छ']

Evaluation

The model can be evaluated as follows on the {language} test data of Common Voice. # TODO: replace #TODO: replace language with your {language}, e.g. French

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

!wget https://www.openslr.org/resources/43/ne_np_female.zip
!unzip ne_np_female.zip
!ls ne_np_female

colnames=['path','sentence'] 
df  = pd.read_csv('/content/ne_np_female/line_index.tsv',sep='\\t',header=None,names = colnames)
df['path'] = '/content/ne_np_female/wavs/'+df['path'] +'.wav'

train, test = train_test_split(df, test_size=0.1)

test.to_csv('/content/ne_np_female/line_index_test.csv')

test_dataset = load_dataset('csv', data_files='/content/ne_np_female/line_index_test.csv',split = 'train')
wer = load_metric("wer")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("gagan3012/wav2vec2-xlsr-nepali")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("gagan3012/wav2vec2-xlsr-nepali") 
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):
\tbatch["sentence"] = re.sub(chars_to_ignore_regex, '', batch["sentence"]).lower()
\tspeech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
\tbatch["speech"] = resampler(speech_array).squeeze().numpy()
\treturn 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):
\tinputs = processor(batch["speech"], sampling_rate=16_000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)

\twith torch.no_grad():
\t\tlogits = model(inputs.input_values.to("cuda"), attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask.to("cuda")).logits

\tpred_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
\tbatch["pred_strings"] = processor.batch_decode(pred_ids)
\treturn 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: 05.97 %

Training

The script used for training can be found here

Configuration

Architecture
Wav2Vec2ForCTC
Layers
24
Hidden size
1,024
Feed-forward size
4,096
Attention heads
16
Vocabulary size
65
Model type
wav2vec2

Identity and Version

Repository
gagan3012/wav2vec2-xlsr-nepali
Publisher
Gagan Bhatia
Task
Speech recognition
Modality
Audio
Library
transformers
Parameters
Not stated by the source
Languages
ne
Revision
d1dc1c34a3f2387d00d4bfe351e940cb7c06fb80
First published
2022-03-02
Last updated
2021-07-06

Files and Weights

13 files, 5.0 GB in total. The weights are 5 files totalling 5.0 GB in bin, msgpack, pt.

Weights5 files · 5.0 GB
Configuration4 files · 5.1 KB
Tokenizer2 files · 845 B
Documentation1 file · 5.4 KB
Repository1 file · 736 B
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
flax_model.msgpackWeights1.3 GB f3f36d84a6ab
optimizer.ptWeights2.5 GB 635fa64b0453
pytorch_model.binWeights1.3 GB 3c1ab6f51758
scheduler.ptWeights623 B 87f9bbfc662d
training_args.binWeights2.3 KB 97af1403a94c
config.jsonConfiguration1.6 KB
preprocessor_config.jsonConfiguration158 B
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration85 B
trainer_state.jsonConfiguration3.3 KB
README.mdDocumentation5.4 KB
.gitattributesRepository736 B
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer138 B
vocab.jsonTokenizer707 B

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
5.0 GB
Download from Gagan Bhatia

Released by Gagan Bhatia through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

  • Trained on (disclosed) OpenSLR
  • Trained on (disclosed) common_voice

Evaluations

Each result is shown as reported, with the conditions its reporter stated. None is a SAVRN measurement. A comparison lines two results up only when their configuration, unit and setup are all stated and identical.

BenchmarkConditionsResultReported byRevisionDate
OpenSLR ne Task Speech RecognitionMetric Test WERComparison conditions not established 5.97 gagan3012
Publisher reported
Evaluated revision not stated

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published5.0 GB

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

Questions About wav2vec2-xlsr-nepali

Can I use wav2vec2-xlsr-nepali commercially?

Yes. wav2vec2-xlsr-nepali is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

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