Model reference · open weights
wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala is an open-weight audio or speech model from softcatala. wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala (BF16) weighs 1.3 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.
Summary of the softcatala/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | softcatala |
|---|---|
| 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 Catalan language using the Common Voice and ParlamentParla datasets.
Attention: The split train/dev/test used does not fully map with the CommonVoice 6.1 dataset. A custom split was used combining both the CommonVoice and ParlamentParla dataset and can be found here. Evaluating on the CV test dataset will produce a biased WER as 1144 audio files of that dataset were used in training/evaluation of this model. WER was calculated using this test.csv which was not seen by the model during training/evaluation.
You can find training and evaluation scripts in the github repository ccoreilly/wav2vec2-catala
When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz.
Word error rate was evaluated on the following datasets unseen by the model:
| Dataset | WER |
|---|---|
| Test split CV+ParlamentParla | 6.92% |
| Google Crowsourced Corpus | 12.99% |
| Audiobook “La llegenda de Sant Jordi” | 13.23% |
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", "ca", split="test[:2%]")
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("ccoreilly/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("ccoreilly/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala")
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])
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 | Test WER | 6.920 | |
| Speech Recognition | Google Crowsourced Corpus WER | 12.990 | |
| Speech Recognition | Audiobook “La llegenda de Sant Jordi” WER | 13.230 |