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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish

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

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

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  • wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish is an automatic speech recognition model developed by KBLab for processing Swedish audio.
  • It was fine-tuned on the NST Swedish Dictation and Common Voice datasets, with a reported word error rate of 14.298610% on the Common Voice test set.
  • The model requires 16kHz sampled input and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.

Summary of the KBLab/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

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

What it runs on

Memory and cards for wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish (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 KBLab says about wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish

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Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 in Swedish using the NST Swedish Dictation. When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz.

Note: We recommend using our newer model wav2vec2-large-voxrex-swedish for the best performance.

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", "sv-SE", split="test[:2%]").

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

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

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the aduio 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 Swedish 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", "sv-SE", split="test")
wer = load_metric("wer")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("KBLab/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("KBLab/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-swedish")
model.to("cuda")

chars_to_ignore_regex = '[,?.!\\-;:"“]'
resampler = torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the aduio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
    batch["sentence"] = re.sub(chars_to_ignore_regex, '', batch["sentence"]).lower()
    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)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the aduio files as arrays
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)

print("WER: {:2f}".format(100 * wer.compute(predictions=result["pred_strings"], references=result["sentence"])))
print("CER: {:2f}".format(100 * wer.compute(predictions=[" ".join(list(entry)) for entry in result["pred_strings"]], references=[" ".join(list(entry)) for entry in result["sentence"]])))

WER: 14.298610% CER: 4.925294%

Training

First the XLSR model was further pre-trained for 50 epochs with a corpus consisting of 1000 hours spoken Swedish from various radio stations. Secondly NST Swedish Dictation was used for fine tuning as well as Common Voice. Lastly only Common Voice dataset was used for final finetuning. The Fairseq scripts were used.

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 sv-SETest WER14.299
Speech RecognitionCommon Voice sv-SETest CER4.925
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