---
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: 10.55
       - name: Test CER
         type: cer
         value: 2.81
---

# 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 = 10

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 KOMMT ZUG STUNDEDAUTENESTERKT |
| IHRE FOTOSTRECKEN ERSCHIENEN IN MODEMAGAZINEN WIE DER VOGUE, HARPER’S BAZAAR UND MARIE CLAIRE. | IHRE FOTELSTRECKEN ERSCHIENEN MIT MODEMAGAZINEN WIE DER VALG AT DAS BASIN MA RIQUAIR |
| FELIPE HAT EINE AUCH FÜR MONARCHEN UNGEWÖHNLICH LANGE TITELLISTE. | FELIPPE HAT 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 BISMARCK ERRICHTET   M |
| WAS SOLLS, ICH BIN BEREIT. | WAS SOLL'S ICH BIN BEREIT |
| DAS INTERNET BESTEHT AUS VIELEN COMPUTERN, DIE MITEINANDER VERBUNDEN SIND. | DAS INTERNET BESTEHT AUS VIELEN COMPUTERN DIE MITEINANDER VERBUNDEN SIND |
| DER URANUS IST DER SIEBENTE PLANET IN UNSEREM SONNENSYSTEM. | DER URANUS IST DER SIEBENTE PLANET IN UNSEREM SONNENSYSTEM |
| DIE WAGEN ERHIELTEN EIN EINHEITLICHES ERSCHEINUNGSBILD IN WEISS MIT ROTEM FENSTERBAND. | DIE WAGEN ERHIELTEN EIN EINHEITLICHES ERSCHEINUNGSBILD IN WEISS MIT ROTEM FENSTERBAND |
| SIE WAR DIE COUSINE VON CARL MARIA VON WEBER. | SIE WAR DIE COUSINE VON KARL-MARIA VON WEBER |

## 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"

CHARS_TO_IGNORE = [",", "?", "¿", ".", "!", "¡", ";", "；", ":", '""', "%", '"', "�", "ʿ", "·", "჻", "~", "՞",
                   "؟", "،", "।", "॥", "«", "»", "„", "“", "”", "「", "」", "‘", "’", "《", "》", "(", ")", "[", "]",
                   "{", "}", "=", "`", "_", "+", "<", ">", "…", "–", "°", "´", "ʾ", "‹", "›", "©", "®", "—", "→", "。",
                   "、", "﹂", "﹁", "‧", "～", "﹏", "，", "｛", "｝", "（", "）", "［", "］", "【", "】", "‥", "〽",
                   "『", "』", "〝", "〟", "⟨", "⟩", "〜", "：", "！", "？", "♪", "؛", "/", "\\", "º", "−", "^", "ʻ", "ˆ"]

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 2021-06-17). 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-german | **10.55%** | **2.81%** |
| Noricum/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-german | 11.06% | 2.99% |
| maxidl/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-german | 13.10% | 3.64% |
| marcel/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-german | 15.97% | 4.37% |
| flozi00/wav2vec-xlsr-german | 16.13% | 4.33% |
| facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-german | 17.15% | 5.79% |
| MehdiHosseiniMoghadam/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-German | 19.31% | 5.41% |