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data2vec-audio-large-960h

Audio facebook Speech→text 1 build Open weights 820 dl/mo

data2vec-audio-large-960h is an open-weight audio or speech model from Meta. data2vec-audio-large-960h (BF16) weighs 1.3 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • data2vec-audio-large-960h is a large automatic speech recognition model developed by Meta and published as facebook/data2vec-audio-large-960h.
  • It is pretrained and fine-tuned on 960 hours of Librispeech data and operates on 16kHz sampled English audio.
  • The model is available under the Apache-2.0 license and achieves a word error rate of 1.89 on the LibriSpeech clean test set.

Summary of the facebook/data2vec-audio-large-960h model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byMeta
Released2022-04-02
VRAM1.3 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for data2vec-audio-large-960h (BF16)

1.3 GBweights, file size
1.6 GBruntime overhead
CardOne streamMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What Meta says about data2vec-audio-large-960h

Read the model card

Facebook's Data2Vec

The large model pretrained and fine-tuned on 960 hours of Librispeech on 16kHz sampled speech audio. When using the model make sure that your speech input is also sampled at 16Khz.

Paper

Authors: Alexei Baevski, Wei-Ning Hsu, Qiantong Xu, Arun Babu, Jiatao Gu, Michael Auli

Abstract

While the general idea of self-supervised learning is identical across modalities, the actual algorithms and objectives differ widely because they were developed with a single modality in mind. To get us closer to general self-supervised learning, we present data2vec, a framework that uses the same learning method for either speech, NLP or computer vision. The core idea is to predict latent representations of the full input data based on a masked view of the input in a self-distillation setup using a standard Transformer architecture. Instead of predicting modality-specific targets such as words, visual tokens or units of human speech which are local in nature, data2vec predicts contextualized latent representations that contain information from the entire input. Experiments on the major benchmarks of speech recognition, image classification, and natural language understanding demonstrate a new state of the art or competitive performance to predominant approaches.

The original model can be found under https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/main/examples/data2vec .

Pre-Training method

For more information, please take a look at the official paper.

Usage

To transcribe audio files the model can be used as a standalone acoustic model as follows:

 from transformers import Wav2Vec2Processor, Data2VecAudioForCTC
 from datasets import load_dataset
 import torch

 # load model and processor
 processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("facebook/data2vec-audio-large-960h")
 model = Data2VecAudioForCTC.from_pretrained("facebook/data2vec-audio-large-960h")

 # load dummy dataset and read soundfiles
 ds = load_dataset("patrickvonplaten/librispeech_asr_dummy", "clean", split="validation")

 # tokenize
 input_values = processor(ds[0]["audio"]["array"],, return_tensors="pt", padding="longest").input_values  # Batch size 1

 # retrieve logits
 logits = model(input_values).logits

 # take argmax and decode
 predicted_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
 transcription = processor.batch_decode(predicted_ids)

Evaluation

This code snippet shows how to evaluate facebook/data2vec-audio-large-960h on LibriSpeech's "clean" and "other" test data.

 from transformers import Wav2Vec2Processor, Data2VecAudioForCTC
 from datasets import load_dataset
 import torch
 from jiwer import wer

 # load model and processor
 processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("facebook/data2vec-audio-large-960h").to("cuda")
 model = Data2VecAudioForCTC.from_pretrained("facebook/data2vec-audio-large-960h")

librispeech_eval = load_dataset("librispeech_asr", "clean", split="test")

def map_to_pred(batch):
    input_values = processor(batch["audio"]["array"], return_tensors="pt", padding="longest").input_values
    with torch.no_grad():
        logits = model(input_values.to("cuda")).logits

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

result = librispeech_eval.map(map_to_pred, batched=True, batch_size=1, remove_columns=["audio"])

print("WER:", wer(result["text"], result["transcription"]))

Result (WER):

"clean""other"
1.894.07

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card: the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
Automatic Speech RecognitionLibriSpeech (clean)Test WER1.890
Automatic Speech RecognitionLibriSpeech (other)Test WER4.070
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