README.md

metadata

language: ar
datasets:
  - common_voice
metrics:
  - wer
  - cer
tags:
  - audio
  - automatic-speech-recognition
  - speech
  - xlsr-fine-tuning-week
license: apache-2.0
model-index:
  - name: XLSR Wav2Vec2 Arabic by Jonatas Grosman
    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: 40.52
          - name: Test CER
            type: cer
            value: 18.37

Wav2Vec2-Large-XLSR-53-Arabic

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

The script used for training can be found here: https://github.com/jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-sprint

Usage

The model can be used directly (without a language model) as follows:

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

LANG_ID = "ar"
MODEL_ID = "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic"
SAMPLES = 5

test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", LANG_ID, split=f"test[:{SAMPLES}]")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
    speech_array, sampling_rate = librosa.load(batch["path"], sr=16_000)
    batch["speech"] = speech_array
    batch["sentence"] = batch["sentence"].upper()
    return batch

test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)
inputs = processor(test_dataset["speech"], sampling_rate=16_000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)

with torch.no_grad():
    logits = model(inputs.input_values, attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask).logits

predicted_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
predicted_sentences = processor.batch_decode(predicted_ids)

for i, predicted_sentence in enumerate(predicted_sentences):
    print("-" * 100)
    print("Reference:", test_dataset[i]["sentence"])
    print("Prediction:", predicted_sentence)

Reference	Prediction
ألديك قلم ؟	ألديك قلم
ليست هناك مسافة على هذه الأرض أبعد من يوم أمس.	ليست لنارك مسافة على هذه الأرض أبعد من يوم الأمس
إنك تكبر المشكلة.	إنك تكبر المشكلة ك
يرغب أن يلتقي بك.	يرغب أن يلتقي بك ن
إنهم لا يعرفون لماذا حتى.	إنهم لا يعرفون لماذا حتى

Evaluation

The model can be evaluated as follows on the Arabic test data of Common Voice.

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

LANG_ID = "ar"
MODEL_ID = "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic"
DEVICE = "cuda"

CHARS_TO_IGNORE = [",", "?", "¿", ".", "!", "¡", ";", ":", '""', "%", '"', "�", "ʿ", "·", "჻", "~", "՞", 
                   "؟", "،", "।", "॥", "«", "»", "„", "“", "”", "「", "」", "‘", "’", "《", "》", "(", ")", "[", "]",
                   "=", "`", "_", "+", "<", ">", "…", "–", "°", "´", "ʾ", "‹", "›", "©", "®", "—", "→", "。"]

test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", LANG_ID, split="test")

wer = load_metric("wer.py") # https://github.com/jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-sprint/blob/main/wer.py
cer = load_metric("cer.py") # https://github.com/jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-sprint/blob/main/cer.py

chars_to_ignore_regex = f"[{re.escape(''.join(CHARS_TO_IGNORE))}]"

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
model.to(DEVICE)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
    with warnings.catch_warnings():
        warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
        speech_array, sampling_rate = librosa.load(batch["path"], sr=16_000)
    batch["speech"] = speech_array
    batch["sentence"] = re.sub(chars_to_ignore_regex, "", batch["sentence"]).upper()
    return batch

test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio files as arrays
def evaluate(batch):
    inputs = processor(batch["speech"], sampling_rate=16_000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)

    with torch.no_grad():
        logits = model(inputs.input_values.to(DEVICE), attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask.to(DEVICE)).logits

    pred_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
    batch["pred_strings"] = processor.batch_decode(pred_ids)
    return batch

result = test_dataset.map(evaluate, batched=True, batch_size=8)

predictions = [x.upper() for x in result["pred_strings"]]
references = [x.upper() for x in result["sentence"]]

print(f"WER: {wer.compute(predictions=predictions, references=references, chunk_size=1000) * 100}")
print(f"CER: {cer.compute(predictions=predictions, references=references, chunk_size=1000) * 100}")

Test Result:

In the table below I report the Word Error Rate (WER) and the Character Error Rate (CER) of the model. I ran the evaluation script described above on other models as well (on 2021-04-21). Note that the table below may show different results from those already reported, this may have been caused due to some specificity of the other evaluation scripts used.

Model	WER	CER
jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic	40.52%	18.37%
bakrianoo/sinai-voice-ar-stt	45.30%	21.84%
othrif/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-arabic	45.93%	20.51%
kmfoda/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-arabic	54.14%	26.07%
anas/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-arabic	62.02%	27.09%
elgeish/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic	100.00%	100.56%