---
language: de
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 German by Jonatas Grosman
  results:
  - task: 
      name: Speech Recognition
      type: automatic-speech-recognition
    dataset:
      name: Common Voice de
      type: common_voice
      args: de
    metrics:
       - name: Test WER
         type: wer
         value: 13.32
       - name: Test CER
         type: cer
         value: 3.71

---

# Wav2Vec2-Large-XLSR-53-German

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

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

LANG_ID = "de"
MODEL_ID = "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-german"
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 |
| ------------- | ------------- |
| ZIEHT EUCH BITTE DRAUSSEN DIE SCHUHE AUS. | ZIEHT EUCH BITTE DRAUSSEN DIE SCHUHE AUS |
| ES KOMMT ZUM SHOWDOWN IN GSTAAD. | ES GRONTEHILSCHONDEBAR ENBESTACDEN |
| IHRE FOTOSTRECKEN ERSCHIENEN IN MODEMAGAZINEN WIE DER VOGUE, HARPER’S BAZAAR UND MARIE CLAIRE. | IHRE FROTESTRECKEN ERSCHIENEN IN MODEMAGAZINEN WIE DER VOLKE-APERS BASAR VAREQER |
| FELIPE HAT EINE AUCH FÜR MONARCHEN UNGEWÖHNLICH LANGE TITELLISTE. | FIELIPPE HATE EINE AUCH FÜR MONACHEN UNGEWÖHNLICH LANGE TITELLISTE |
| ER WURDE ZU EHREN DES REICHSKANZLERS OTTO VON BISMARCK ERRICHTET. | ER WURDE ZU EHREN DES REICHSKANZLERS OTTO VON BISMARK ERRICHTET |

## Evaluation

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

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

LANG_ID = "de"
MODEL_ID = "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-german"
DEVICE = "cuda"
MAX_SAMPLES = 8000

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

test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", LANG_ID, split="test")
if len(test_dataset) > MAX_SAMPLES:
    test_dataset = test_dataset.select(range(MAX_SAMPLES))

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)

print("WER: {:2f}".format(100 * wer.compute(predictions=result["pred_strings"], references=result["sentence"], chunk_size=1000)))
print("CER: {:2f}".format(100 * cer.compute(predictions=result["pred_strings"], references=result["sentence"], chunk_size=1000)))
```

**Test Result**:

- WER: 13.32%
- CER: 3.71%