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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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Summary of the asapp/sew-d-tiny-100k-ft-ls100h model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | asapp |
|---|---|
| Released | 2022-03-02 |
| Parameters | 24M |
| VRAM | 48 MB 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 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 .
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)
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" |
|---|---|
| 10.47 | 22.73 |
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 | 10.470 |
| Automatic Speech Recognition | LibriSpeech (other) | Test WER | 22.730 |