---
language: he
datasets:
- common_voice 
metrics:
- wer
tags:
- audio
- automatic-speech-recognition
- speech
- xlsr-fine-tuning-week
license: apache-2.0
model-index:
- name: Hebrew XLSR Wav2Vec2 Large 53
  results:
  - task: 
      name: Speech Recognition
      type: automatic-speech-recognition
    dataset:
      name: 
      type: 
      args: he
    metrics:
       - name: Test WER
         type: wer
         value: 
---
# wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hebrew
Fine-tuned [facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53](https://huggingface.co./facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53) on the several downloaded youtube samples.
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", "he", split="test[:2%]") # there is no common dataset for Hebrew, please, paste your data
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("imvladikon/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hebrew")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("imvladikon/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hebrew")
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):
  speech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
  batch["speech"] = resampler(speech_array).squeeze().numpy()
  return 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 some Hebrew test data
```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", "he", split="test") # there is no common dataset for Hebrew, please, paste your data
wer = load_metric("wer")
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("imvladikon/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hebrew")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("imvladikon/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hebrew").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):
  batch["sentence"] = re.sub(chars_to_ignore_regex, '', batch["sentence"]).lower()
  speech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
  batch["speech"] = resampler(speech_array).squeeze().numpy()
  return 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):
  inputs = processor(batch["speech"], sampling_rate=16_000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
  with torch.no_grad():
    logits = model(inputs.input_values.to("cuda"), attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask.to("cuda")).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"])))
```
**Test Result**: 
# Example Predictions