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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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Summary of the enterprise-explorers/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-eu model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | enterprise-explorers |
|---|---|
| Released | 2022-03-02 |
| 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
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.
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])
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 %
The Common Voice train and validation datasets were used for training. Training was performed for 22 + 20 epochs with the following parameters:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speech Recognition | Common Voice eu | Test WER | 15.340 |