README.md

---
language: ja
datasets:
- common_voice
metrics:
- wer
- cer
tags:
- audio
- automatic-speech-recognition
- speech

model-index:
- name: Wav2Vec2 Japanese by NTQAI
  results:
  - task: 
      name: Speech Recognition
      type: automatic-speech-recognition
    dataset:
      name: Common Voice ja
      type: common_voice
      args: ja
    metrics:
       - name: Test WER
         type: wer
         value: 81.3
       - name: Test CER
         type: cer
         value: 21.9
---
# Wav2Vec2-Large-Japanese
Fine-tuned [facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53) on Japanese using the [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice), [CSS10](https://github.com/Kyubyong/css10) and [JSUT](https://sites.google.com/site/shinnosuketakamichi/publication/jsut) and [TEDxJP](https://github.com/laboroai/TEDxJP-10K) and 
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:
```python
import torch
import librosa
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
LANG_ID = "ja"
MODEL_ID = "NTQAI/wav2vec2-large-japanese"
SAMPLES = 10
test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", LANG_ID, split=f"test[:{SAMPLES}]")
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
    speech_array, sampling_rate = librosa.load(batch["path"], sr=16_000)
    batch["speech"] = speech_array
    batch["sentence"] = batch["sentence"].upper()
    return batch
test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)
inputs = processor(test_dataset["speech"], 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)
predicted_sentences = processor.batch_decode(predicted_ids)
for i, predicted_sentence in enumerate(predicted_sentences):
    print("-" * 100)
    print("Reference:", test_dataset[i]["sentence"])
    print("Prediction:", predicted_sentence)
```
| Reference  | Prediction |
| ------------- | ------------- |
| 祖母は、おおむね機嫌よく、サイコロをころがしている。 | 人母は重にきね起くさいがしている |
| 財布をなくしたので、交番へ行きます。 | 財布をなく手端ので勾番へ行きます |
| 飲み屋のおやじ、旅館の主人、医者をはじめ、交際のある人にきいてまわったら、みんな、私より収入が多いはずなのに、税金は安い。 | ノ宮屋のお親じ旅館の主に医者をはじめ交際のアル人トに聞いて回ったらみんな私より収入が多いはなうに税金は安い |
| 新しい靴をはいて出かけます。 | だらしい靴をはいて出かけます |
| このためプラズマ中のイオンや電子の持つ平均運動エネルギーを温度で表現することがある | このためプラズマ中のイオンや電子の持つ平均運動エネルギーを温度で表弁することがある |
| 松井さんはサッカーより野球のほうが上手です。 | 松井さんはサッカーより野球のほうが上手です |
| 新しいお皿を使います。 | 新しいお皿を使います |
| 結婚以来三年半ぶりの東京も、旧友とのお酒も、夜行列車も、駅で寝て、朝を待つのも久しぶりだ。 | 結婚ル二来三年半降りの東京も吸とのお酒も野越者も駅で寝て朝を待つの久しぶりた |
| これまで、少年野球、ママさんバレーなど、地域スポーツを支え、市民に密着してきたのは、無数のボランティアだった。 | これまで少年野球<unk>三バレーなど地域スポーツを支え市民に満着してきたのは娘数のボランティアだった |
| 靴を脱いで、スリッパをはきます。 | 靴を脱いでスイパーをはきます |
## Evaluation
The model can be evaluated as follows on the Japanese test data of Common Voice.
```python
import torch
import re
import librosa
from datasets import load_dataset, load_metric
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
LANG_ID = "ja"
MODEL_ID = "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-japanese"
DEVICE = "cuda"
CHARS_TO_IGNORE = [",", "?", "¿", ".", "!", "¡", ";", "；", ":", '""', "%", '"', "�", "ʿ", "·", "჻", "~", "՞",
                   "؟", "،", "।", "॥", "«", "»", "„", "“", "”", "「", "」", "‘", "’", "《", "》", "(", ")", "[", "]",
                   "{", "}", "=", "`", "_", "+", "<", ">", "…", "–", "°", "´", "ʾ", "‹", "›", "©", "®", "—", "→", "。",
                   "、", "﹂", "﹁", "‧", "～", "﹏", "，", "｛", "｝", "（", "）", "［", "］", "【", "】", "‥", "〽",
                   "『", "』", "〝", "〟", "⟨", "⟩", "〜", "：", "！", "？", "♪", "؛", "/", "\\", "º", "−", "^", "'", "ʻ", "ˆ"]
test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", LANG_ID, split="test")
wer = load_metric("wer.py") # https://github.com/jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-sprint/blob/main/wer.py
cer = load_metric("cer.py") # https://github.com/jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-sprint/blob/main/cer.py
chars_to_ignore_regex = f"[{re.escape(''.join(CHARS_TO_IGNORE))}]"
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
model.to(DEVICE)
# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
    with warnings.catch_warnings():
        warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
        speech_array, sampling_rate = librosa.load(batch["path"], sr=16_000)
    batch["speech"] = speech_array
    batch["sentence"] = re.sub(chars_to_ignore_regex, "", batch["sentence"]).upper()
    return batch
test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)
# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio 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(DEVICE), attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask.to(DEVICE)).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)
predictions = [x.upper() for x in result["pred_strings"]]
references = [x.upper() for x in result["sentence"]]
print(f"WER: {wer.compute(predictions=predictions, references=references, chunk_size=1000) * 100}")
print(f"CER: {cer.compute(predictions=predictions, references=references, chunk_size=1000) * 100}")
```
**Test Result**:
In the table below I report the Word Error Rate (WER) and the Character Error Rate (CER) of the model. I ran the evaluation script described above on other models as well (on 2021-05-10). Note that the table below may show different results from those already reported, this may have been caused due to some specificity of the other evaluation scripts used.
| Model | WER | CER |
| ------------- | ------------- | ------------- |
| jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-japanese | **81.80%** | **20.16%** |
| vumichien/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-japanese | 1108.86% | 23.40% |
| qqhann/w2v_hf_jsut_xlsr53 | 1012.18% | 70.77% |