---
language: ro
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- audio
- automatic-speech-recognition
- speech
- xlsr-fine-tuning-week
datasets:
- common_voice
base_model: facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53
model-index:
- name: XLSR Wav2Vec2 Romanian by George Mihaila
  results:
  - task:
      type: automatic-speech-recognition
      name: Speech Recognition
    dataset:
      name: Common Voice ro
      type: common_voice
      args: ro
    metrics:
    - type: wer
      value: 28.4
      name: Test WER
---

# Wav2Vec2-Large-XLSR-53-Romanian

Fine-tuned [facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53) in Romanian using the [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice)
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:

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

test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", "ro", split="test[:2%]").

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("gmihaila/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-romanian")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("gmihaila/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-romanian")

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])
```


## Evaluation

The model can be evaluated as follows on the {language} test data of Common Voice.


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

test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", "ro", split="test")
wer = load_metric("wer")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("gmihaila/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-romanian")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("gmihaila/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-romanian")
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

    pred_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**: 28.43 %


## Training

The Common Voice `train`, `validation` datasets were used for training.

The script used for training can be found [here](https://colab.research.google.com/github/gmihaila/ml_things/blob/master/notebooks/pytorch/RO_Fine_Tune_XLSR_Wav2Vec2_on_Turkish_ASR_with_🤗_Transformers.ipynb)