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wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala

Audio softcatala Speech→text 1 build Open weights 751k dl/mo

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.

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  • wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala is an automatic speech recognition model for the Catalan language, developed by softcatala.
  • It is a fine-tuned version of facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53, trained on the Common Voice and ParlamentParla datasets.
  • The model requires 16kHz audio input and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.

Summary of the softcatala/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

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

What it runs on

Memory and cards for wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala (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 softcatala says about wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala

Read 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.

Results

Word error rate was evaluated on the following datasets unseen by the model:

DatasetWER
Test split CV+ParlamentParla6.92%
Google Crowsourced Corpus12.99%
Audiobook “La llegenda de Sant Jordi”13.23%

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", "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

Reported results

As published on the model card: the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
Speech RecognitionTest WER6.920
Speech RecognitionGoogle Crowsourced Corpus WER12.990
Speech RecognitionAudiobook “La llegenda de Sant Jordi” WER13.230
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