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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-eu

Audio enterprise-explorers Speech→text 1 build Open weights 1k dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-eu is an open-weight audio or speech model from enterprise-explorers. wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-eu (BF16) weighs 1.3 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-eu is an automatic speech recognition model fine-tuned for the Basque language.
  • It was developed by enterprise-explorers and is licensed under Apache-2.0.
  • The model requires 16kHz audio input and achieved a word error rate of 15.34% on the Common Voice test set.

Summary of the enterprise-explorers/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-eu model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byenterprise-explorers
Released2022-03-02
VRAM1.3 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-eu (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 enterprise-explorers says about wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-eu

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Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on Basque using the Common Voice dataset. 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:

import torch
import torchaudio
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor

test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", "eu", split="test[:2%]")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("pcuenq/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-eu")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("pcuenq/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-eu")

resampler = torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio 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():
	logits = 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 the Basque test data of Common Voice.

import torch
import torchaudio
from datasets import load_dataset, load_metric
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
import re

test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", "eu", split="test")
wer = load_metric("wer")

model_name = "pcuenq/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-eu"

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(model_name)
model.to("cuda")

## Text pre-processing

chars_to_ignore_regex = '[\,\¿\?\.\¡\!\-\;\:\"\“\%\‘\”\\…\’\ː\'\‹\›\`\´\®\—\→]'
chars_to_ignore_pattern = re.compile(chars_to_ignore_regex)

def remove_special_characters(batch):
    batch["sentence"] = chars_to_ignore_pattern.sub('', batch["sentence"]).lower() + " "
    return batch

## Audio pre-processing

import librosa
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
    speech_array, sample_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
    batch["speech"] = librosa.resample(speech_array.squeeze().numpy(), sample_rate, 16_000)
    return batch

# Text transformation and audio resampling
def cv_prepare(batch):
    batch = remove_special_characters(batch)
    batch = speech_file_to_array_fn(batch)
    return batch

# Number of CPUs or None
num_proc = 16
test_dataset = test_dataset.map(cv_prepare, remove_columns=['path'], num_proc=num_proc)

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)

# WER Metric computation
print("WER: {:2f}".format(100 * wer.compute(predictions=result["pred_strings"], references=result["sentence"])))

Test Result: 15.34 %

Training

The Common Voice train and validation datasets were used for training. Training was performed for 22 + 20 epochs with the following parameters:

  • Batch size 16, 2 gradient accumulation steps.
  • Learning rate: 2.5e-4
  • Activation dropout: 0.05
  • Attention dropout: 0.1
  • Hidden dropout: 0.05
  • Feature proj. dropout: 0.05
  • Mask time probability: 0.08
  • Layer dropout: 0.05

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
Speech RecognitionCommon Voice euTest WER15.340
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