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sew-d-tiny-100k-ft-ls100h

Audio asapp Speech→text 1 build Open weights 2k dl/mo

sew-d-tiny-100k-ft-ls100h is an open-weight audio or speech model from asapp. sew-d-tiny-100k-ft-ls100h (FP32) weighs 48 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • sew-d-tiny-100k-ft-ls100h is a 24M parameter speech model by asapp designed for automatic speech recognition.
  • It processes 16kHz audio with a context length of 512 tokens and supports English.
  • The model is licensed under apache-2.0 and achieves a word error rate of 10.47 on the LibriSpeech clean test set.

Summary of the asapp/sew-d-tiny-100k-ft-ls100h model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byasapp
Released2022-03-02
Parameters24M
VRAM48 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for sew-d-tiny-100k-ft-ls100h (FP32)

48 MBweights, 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 asapp says about sew-d-tiny-100k-ft-ls100h

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SEW-D by ASAPP Research

The base model pretrained on 16kHz sampled speech audio. When using the model make sure that your speech input is also sampled at 16Khz. Note that this model should be fine-tuned on a downstream task, like Automatic Speech Recognition, Speaker Identification, Intent Classification, Emotion Recognition, etc...

Paper: Performance-Efficiency Trade-offs in Unsupervised Pre-training for Speech Recognition

Authors: Felix Wu, Kwangyoun Kim, Jing Pan, Kyu Han, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Yoav Artzi

Abstract This paper is a study of performance-efficiency trade-offs in pre-trained models for automatic speech recognition (ASR). We focus on wav2vec 2.0, and formalize several architecture designs that influence both the model performance and its efficiency. Putting together all our observations, we introduce SEW (Squeezed and Efficient Wav2vec), a pre-trained model architecture with significant improvements along both performance and efficiency dimensions across a variety of training setups. For example, under the 100h-960h semi-supervised setup on LibriSpeech, SEW achieves a 1.9x inference speedup compared to wav2vec 2.0, with a 13.5% relative reduction in word error rate. With a similar inference time, SEW reduces word error rate by 25-50% across different model sizes.

The original model can be found under https://github.com/asappresearch/sew#model-checkpoints .

Usage

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

from transformers import Wav2Vec2Processor, SEWDForCTC
from datasets import load_dataset
import soundfile as sf
import torch

# load the model and preprocessor
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("asapp/sew-d-tiny-100k-ft-ls100h")
model = SEWDForCTC.from_pretrained("asapp/sew-d-tiny-100k-ft-ls100h")

# load the dummy dataset with speech samples
ds = load_dataset("patrickvonplaten/librispeech_asr_dummy", "clean", split="validation")

# preprocess
input_values = processor(ds[0]["audio"]["array"], return_tensors="pt").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 asapp/sew-d-tiny-100k-ft-ls100h on LibriSpeech's "clean" and "other" test data.

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

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

model = SEWDForCTC.from_pretrained("asapp/sew-d-tiny-100k-ft-ls100h").to("cuda")
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("asapp/sew-d-tiny-100k-ft-ls100h")

def map_to_pred(batch):
    input_values = processor(batch["audio"][0]["array"], sampling_rate=16000,
                             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"
10.4722.73

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 WER10.470
Automatic Speech RecognitionLibriSpeech (other)Test WER22.730
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