Model reference · open weights
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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Summary of the facebook/data2vec-audio-large-960h model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | Meta |
|---|---|
| Released | 2022-04-02 |
| VRAM | 1.3 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | One stream | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From the model card
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.
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 .
For more information, please take a look at the official paper.
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)
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" |
|---|---|
| 1.89 | 4.07 |
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
Benchmarks
As published on the model card: the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic Speech Recognition | LibriSpeech (clean) | Test WER | 1.890 |
| Automatic Speech Recognition | LibriSpeech (other) | Test WER | 4.070 |