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language:
  - en
library_name: nemo
datasets:
  - librispeech_asr
  - fisher_corpus
  - Switchboard-1
  - WSJ-0
  - WSJ-1
  - National-Singapore-Corpus-Part-1
  - National-Singapore-Corpus-Part-6
  - vctk
  - voxpopuli
  - europarl
  - multilingual_librispeech
  - mozilla-foundation/common_voice_8_0
  - MLCommons/peoples_speech
thumbnail: null
tags:
  - automatic-speech-recognition
  - speech
  - audio
  - Transducer
  - TDT
  - FastConformer
  - Conformer
  - pytorch
  - NeMo
  - hf-asr-leaderboard
license: cc-by-4.0
widget:
  - example_title: Librispeech sample 1
    src: https://cdn-media.huggingface.co/speech_samples/sample1.flac
  - example_title: Librispeech sample 2
    src: https://cdn-media.huggingface.co/speech_samples/sample2.flac
model-index:
  - name: parakeet_tdt_1.1b
    results:
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: AMI (Meetings test)
          type: edinburghcstr/ami
          config: ihm
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 15.9
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Earnings-22
          type: revdotcom/earnings22
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 14.65
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: GigaSpeech
          type: speechcolab/gigaspeech
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 9.55
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: LibriSpeech (clean)
          type: librispeech_asr
          config: other
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 1.39
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: LibriSpeech (other)
          type: librispeech_asr
          config: other
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 2.62
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: SPGI Speech
          type: kensho/spgispeech
          config: test
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 3.42
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: tedlium-v3
          type: LIUM/tedlium
          config: release1
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 3.56
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Vox Populi
          type: facebook/voxpopuli
          config: en
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 5.48
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Mozilla Common Voice 9.0
          type: mozilla-foundation/common_voice_9_0
          config: en
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 5.97
metrics:
  - wer
pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition

Parakeet TDT 1.1B (en)

Model architecture | Model size | Language

parakeet-tdt-1.1b is an ASR model that transcribes speech in lower case English alphabet. This model is jointly developed by NVIDIA NeMo and Suno.ai teams. It is an XXL version of FastConformer [1] TDT [2] (around 1.1B parameters) model. See the model architecture section and NeMo documentation for complete architecture details.

NVIDIA NeMo: Training

To train, fine-tune or play with the model you will need to install NVIDIA NeMo. We recommend you install it after you've installed latest PyTorch version.

pip install nemo_toolkit['all']

How to Use this Model

The model is available for use in the NeMo toolkit [3], and can be used as a pre-trained checkpoint for inference or for fine-tuning on another dataset.

Automatically instantiate the model

import nemo.collections.asr as nemo_asr
asr_model = nemo_asr.models.EncDecRNNTBPEModel.from_pretrained(model_name="nvidia/parakeet-tdt-1.1b")

Transcribing using Python

First, let's get a sample

wget https://dldata-public.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2086-149220-0033.wav

Then simply do:

asr_model.transcribe(['2086-149220-0033.wav'])

Transcribing many audio files

python [NEMO_GIT_FOLDER]/examples/asr/transcribe_speech.py 
 pretrained_name="nvidia/parakeet-tdt-1.1b" 
 audio_dir="<DIRECTORY CONTAINING AUDIO FILES>"

Input

This model accepts 16000 Hz mono-channel audio (wav files) as input.

Output

This model provides transcribed speech as a string for a given audio sample.

Model Architecture

This model uses a FastConformer-TDT architecture. FastConformer [1] is an optimized version of the Conformer model with 8x depthwise-separable convolutional downsampling. You may find more information on the details of FastConformer here: Fast-Conformer Model.

TDT (Token-and-Duration Transducer) [2] is a generalization of conventional Transducers by decoupling token and duration predictions. Unlike conventional Transducers which produces a lot of blanks during inference, a TDT model can skip majority of blank predictions by using the duration output (up to 4 frames for this parakeet-tdt-1.1b model), thus brings significant inference speed-up. The detail of TDT can be found here: Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting Tokens and Durations.

Training

The NeMo toolkit [3] was used for training the models for over several hundred epochs. These model are trained with this example script and this base config.

The tokenizers for these models were built using the text transcripts of the train set with this script.

Datasets

The model was trained on 64K hours of English speech collected and prepared by NVIDIA NeMo and Suno teams.

The training dataset consists of private subset with 40K hours of English speech plus 24K hours from the following public datasets:

  • Librispeech 960 hours of English speech
  • Fisher Corpus
  • Switchboard-1 Dataset
  • WSJ-0 and WSJ-1
  • National Speech Corpus (Part 1, Part 6)
  • VCTK
  • VoxPopuli (EN)
  • Europarl-ASR (EN)
  • Multilingual Librispeech (MLS EN) - 2,000 hour subset
  • Mozilla Common Voice (v7.0)
  • People's Speech - 12,000 hour subset

Performance

The performance of Automatic Speech Recognition models is measuring using Word Error Rate. Since this dataset is trained on multiple domains and a much larger corpus, it will generally perform better at transcribing audio in general.

The following tables summarizes the performance of the available models in this collection with the Transducer decoder. Performances of the ASR models are reported in terms of Word Error Rate (WER%) with greedy decoding.

Version Tokenizer Vocabulary Size AMI Earnings-22 Giga Speech LS test-clean SPGI Speech TEDLIUM-v3 Vox Populi Common Voice
1.22.0 SentencePiece Unigram 1024 15.90 14.65 9.55 1.39 2.62 3.42 3.56 5.48

These are greedy WER numbers without external LM. More details on evaluation can be found at HuggingFace ASR Leaderboard

Model Fairness Evaluation

As outlined in the paper "Towards Measuring Fairness in AI: the Casual Conversations Dataset", we assessed the parakeet-tdt-1.1b model for fairness. The model was evaluated on the CausalConversations-v1 dataset, and the results are reported as follows:

Gender Bias:

Gender Male Female N/A Other
Num utterances 19325 24532 926 33
% WER 17.18 14.61 19.06 37.57

Age Bias:

Age Group $(18-30)$ $(31-45)$ $(46-85)$ $(1-100)$
Num utterances 15956 14585 13349 43890
% WER 15.83 15.89 15.46 15.74

(Error rates for fairness evaluation are determined by normalizing both the reference and predicted text, similar to the methods used in the evaluations found at https://github.com/huggingface/open_asr_leaderboard.)

NVIDIA Riva: Deployment

NVIDIA Riva, is an accelerated speech AI SDK deployable on-prem, in all clouds, multi-cloud, hybrid, on edge, and embedded. Additionally, Riva provides:

  • World-class out-of-the-box accuracy for the most common languages with model checkpoints trained on proprietary data with hundreds of thousands of GPU-compute hours
  • Best in class accuracy with run-time word boosting (e.g., brand and product names) and customization of acoustic model, language model, and inverse text normalization
  • Streaming speech recognition, Kubernetes compatible scaling, and enterprise-grade support

Although this model isn’t supported yet by Riva, the list of supported models is here.
Check out Riva live demo.

References

[1] Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition

[2] Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting Tokens and Durations

[3] Google Sentencepiece Tokenizer

[4] NVIDIA NeMo Toolkit

[5] Suno.ai

[6] HuggingFace ASR Leaderboard

[7] Towards Measuring Fairness in AI: the Casual Conversations Dataset

Licence

License to use this model is covered by the CC-BY-4.0. By downloading the public and release version of the model, you accept the terms and conditions of the CC-BY-4.0 license.