README.md

---
language: ar
datasets:
- common_voice
metrics:
- wer
tags:
- audio
- automatic-speech-recognition
- speech
- xlsr-fine-tuning-week
license: apache-2.0
model-index:
- name: Sinai Voice Arabic Speech Recognition Model
  results:
  - task: 
      name: Speech Recognition
      type: automatic-speech-recognition
    dataset:
      name: Common Voice ar
      type: common_voice
      args: ar
    metrics:
       - name: Test WER
         type: wer
         value: 23.80
---

# Sinai Voice Arabic Speech Recognition Model
# نموذج **صوت سيناء** للتعرف على الأصوات العربية الفصحى و تحويلها إلى نصوص
Fine-tuned [facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53)
on Arabic using the [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice)

Most of evaluation codes in this documentation are INSPIRED by  [elgeish/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic](https://huggingface.co/elgeish/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic)

Please install:
- [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/)
- `$ pip3 install jiwer lang_trans torchaudio datasets transformers pandas tqdm`

## Benchmark

We evaluated the model against different Arabic-STT Wav2Vec models.

|    | Model                                 | [using transliteration](https://pypi.org/project/lang-trans/)   |      WER |      Training Datasets |
|---:|:--------------------------------------|:---------------------|---------:|---------:|
|  1 | bakrianoo/sinai-voice-ar-stt          | True                 | 0.238001 |Common Voice 6|
|  2 | elgeish/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic | True                 | 0.266527 |Common Voice 6 + Arabic Speech Corpus|
|  3 | othrif/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-arabic     | True                 | 0.298122 |Common Voice 6|
|  4 | bakrianoo/sinai-voice-ar-stt          | False                | 0.448987 |Common Voice 6|
|  5 | othrif/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-arabic     | False                | 0.464004 |Common Voice 6|
|  6 | anas/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-arabic       | True                 | 0.506191 |Common Voice 4|
|  7 | anas/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-arabic       | False                | 0.622288 |Common Voice 4|


<details>
<summary>We used the following <b>CODE</b> to generate the above results</summary>

```python
import jiwer
import torch
from tqdm.auto import tqdm
import torchaudio
from datasets import load_dataset
from lang_trans.arabic import buckwalter
from transformers import set_seed, Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
import pandas as pd

# load test dataset
set_seed(42)
test_split = load_dataset("common_voice", "ar", split="test")

# init sample rate resamplers
resamplers = {  # all three sampling rates exist in test split
    48000: torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48000, 16000),
    44100: torchaudio.transforms.Resample(44100, 16000),
    32000: torchaudio.transforms.Resample(32000, 16000),
}

# WER composer
transformation = jiwer.Compose([
    # normalize some diacritics, remove punctuation, and replace Persian letters with Arabic ones
    jiwer.SubstituteRegexes({
        r'[auiFNKo\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\~_،؟»\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\?;:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\-,\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\.؛«!"]': "", "\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\u06D6": "",
        r"[\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\|\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{]": "A", "p": "h", "ک": "k", "ی": "y"}),
    # default transformation below
    jiwer.RemoveMultipleSpaces(),
    jiwer.Strip(),
    jiwer.SentencesToListOfWords(),
    jiwer.RemoveEmptyStrings(),
])

def prepare_example(example):
    speech, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(example["path"])
    if sampling_rate in resamplers:
        example["speech"] = resamplers[sampling_rate](speech).squeeze().numpy()
    else:
        example["speech"] = resamplers[4800](speech).squeeze().numpy()
    return example

def predict(batch):
    inputs = processor(batch["speech"], sampling_rate=16000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
    with torch.no_grad():
        predicted = torch.argmax(model(inputs.input_values.to("cuda")).logits, dim=-1)
    predicted[predicted == -100] = processor.tokenizer.pad_token_id  # see fine-tuning script
    batch["predicted"] = processor.batch_decode(predicted)
    return batch

# prepare the test dataset
test_split = test_split.map(prepare_example)

stt_models = [
   "elgeish/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic",
   "othrif/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-arabic",
   "anas/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-arabic",
   "bakrianoo/sinai-voice-ar-stt"
]

stt_results = []

for model_path in tqdm(stt_models):
    processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(model_path)
    model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(model_path).to("cuda").eval()
    
    test_split_preds = test_split.map(predict, batched=True, batch_size=56, remove_columns=["speech"])
    
    orig_metrics = jiwer.compute_measures(
        truth=[s for s in test_split_preds["sentence"]],
        hypothesis=[s for s in test_split_preds["predicted"]],
        truth_transform=transformation,
        hypothesis_transform=transformation,
    )
    
    trans_metrics = jiwer.compute_measures(
        truth=[buckwalter.trans(s) for s in test_split_preds["sentence"]],  # Buckwalter transliteration
        hypothesis=[buckwalter.trans(s) for s in test_split_preds["predicted"]], # Buckwalter transliteration
        truth_transform=transformation,
        hypothesis_transform=transformation,
    )
    
    stt_results.append({
        "model": model_path,
        "using_transliation": True,
        "WER": trans_metrics["wer"]
    })
    
    stt_results.append({
        "model": model_path,
        "using_transliation": False,
        "WER": orig_metrics["wer"]
    })
    
    del model
    del processor
    
stt_results_df = pd.DataFrame(stt_results)
stt_results_df = stt_results_df.sort_values('WER', axis=0, ascending=True)
stt_results_df.head(n=50)

```
</details>


## Usage

The model can be used directly (without a language model) as follows:
```python
import torch
import torchaudio
from datasets import load_dataset
from lang_trans.arabic import buckwalter
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", "ar", split="test[:10]")
resamplers = {  # all three sampling rates exist in test split
    48000: torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48000, 16000),
    44100: torchaudio.transforms.Resample(44100, 16000),
    32000: torchaudio.transforms.Resample(32000, 16000),
}

def prepare_example(example):
    speech, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(example["path"])
    if sampling_rate in resamplers:
        example["speech"] = resamplers[sampling_rate](speech).squeeze().numpy()
    else:
        example["speech"] = resamplers[4800](speech).squeeze().numpy()
    return example
   
dataset = dataset.map(prepare_example)
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("bakrianoo/sinai-voice-ar-stt")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("bakrianoo/sinai-voice-ar-stt").eval()
def predict(batch):
    inputs = processor(batch["speech"], sampling_rate=16000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
    with torch.no_grad():
        predicted = torch.argmax(model(inputs.input_values).logits, dim=-1)
    predicted[predicted == -100] = processor.tokenizer.pad_token_id  # see fine-tuning script
    batch["predicted"] = processor.tokenizer.batch_decode(predicted)
    return batch
dataset = dataset.map(predict, batched=True, batch_size=1, remove_columns=["speech"])
for reference, predicted in zip(dataset["sentence"], dataset["predicted"]):
    print("reference:", reference)
    print("predicted:", predicted)
    print("--")
```
Here's the output:
```
reference: ألديك قلم ؟
predicted: ألديك قلم
--
reference: ليست هناك مسافة على هذه الأرض أبعد من يوم أمس.
predicted: ليست نارك مسافة على هذه الأرض أبعد من يوم أمس
--
reference: إنك تكبر المشكلة.
predicted: إنك تكبر المشكلة
--
reference: يرغب أن يلتقي بك.
predicted: يرغب أن يلتقي بك
--
reference: إنهم لا يعرفون لماذا حتى.
predicted: إنهم لا يعرفون لماذا حتى
--
reference: سيسعدني مساعدتك أي وقت تحب.
predicted: سيسعدن مساعثتك أي وقد تحب
--
reference: أَحَبُّ نظريّة علمية إليّ هي أن حلقات زحل مكونة بالكامل من الأمتعة المفقودة.
predicted: أحب نظرية علمية إلي هي أن أحلقتز حلم كوينا بالكامل من الأمت عن المفقودة
--
reference: سأشتري له قلماً.
predicted: سأشتري له قلما
--
reference: أين المشكلة ؟
predicted: أين المشكل
--
reference: وَلِلَّهِ يَسْجُدُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ مِنْ دَابَّةٍ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ وَهُمْ لَا يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ
predicted: ولله يسجد ما في السماوات وما في الأرض من دابة والملائكة وهم لا يستكبرون
```

## Evaluation

The model can be evaluated as follows on the Arabic test data of Common Voice:
```python
import jiwer
import torch
import torchaudio
from datasets import load_dataset
from lang_trans.arabic import buckwalter
from transformers import set_seed, Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
set_seed(42)
test_split = load_dataset("common_voice", "ar", split="test")
resamplers = {  # all three sampling rates exist in test split
    48000: torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48000, 16000),
    44100: torchaudio.transforms.Resample(44100, 16000),
    32000: torchaudio.transforms.Resample(32000, 16000),
}

def prepare_example(example):
    speech, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(example["path"])
    if sampling_rate in resamplers:
        example["speech"] = resamplers[sampling_rate](speech).squeeze().numpy()
    else:
        example["speech"] = resamplers[4800](speech).squeeze().numpy()
    return example
 
test_split = test_split.map(prepare_example)
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("bakrianoo/sinai-voice-ar-stt")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("bakrianoo/sinai-voice-ar-stt").to("cuda").eval()
def predict(batch):
    inputs = processor(batch["speech"], sampling_rate=16000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
    with torch.no_grad():
        predicted = torch.argmax(model(inputs.input_values.to("cuda")).logits, dim=-1)
    predicted[predicted == -100] = processor.tokenizer.pad_token_id  # see fine-tuning script
    batch["predicted"] = processor.batch_decode(predicted)
    return batch
test_split = test_split.map(predict, batched=True, batch_size=16, remove_columns=["speech"])

transformation = jiwer.Compose([
    # normalize some diacritics, remove punctuation, and replace Persian letters with Arabic ones
    jiwer.SubstituteRegexes({
        r'[auiFNKo\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\~_،؟»\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\?;:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\-,\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\.؛«!"]': "", "\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\u06D6": "",
        r"[\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\|\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{]": "A", "p": "h", "ک": "k", "ی": "y"}),
    # default transformation below
    jiwer.RemoveMultipleSpaces(),
    jiwer.Strip(),
    jiwer.SentencesToListOfWords(),
    jiwer.RemoveEmptyStrings(),
])

metrics = jiwer.compute_measures(
    truth=[buckwalter.trans(s) for s in test_split["sentence"]],  # Buckwalter transliteration
    hypothesis=[buckwalter.trans(s) for s in test_split["predicted"]],
    truth_transform=transformation,
    hypothesis_transform=transformation,
)
print(f"WER: {metrics['wer']:.2%}")
```
**Test Result**: 23.80%


## Other Arabic Voice recognition Models

الكلمات لا تكفى لشكر أولئك الذين يؤمنون أن هنالك أمل, و يسعون من أجله

- [elgeish/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic](https://huggingface.co/elgeish/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic)
- [othrif/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-arabic](https://huggingface.co/othrif/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-arabic)
- [anas/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-arabic](https://huggingface.co/anas/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-arabic)