wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-wolof-lm

Wolof is a language spoken in Senegal and neighbouring countries, this language is not too well represented, there are few resources in the field of Text en speech In this sense we aim to bring our contribution to this, it is in this sense that enters this repo.

This model is a fine-tuned version of facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m ,with a language model that is fine-tuned with the largest available speech dataset of the ALFFA_PUBLIC

It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:

• Loss: 0.367826
• Wer: 0.212565

Model description

The duration of the training data is 16.8 hours, which we have divided into 10,000 audio files for the training and 3,339 for the test.

Training and evaluation data

We eval the model at every 1500 step , and log it . and save at every 33340 step

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

• learning_rate: 1e-4
• train_batch_size: 3
• eval_batch_size : 8
• total_train_batch_size: 64
• total_eval_batch_size: 64
• optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
• lr_scheduler_type: linear
• lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 1000
• num_epochs: 10.0

Training results

Step	Training Loss	Validation Loss	Wer
1500	2.854200	0.642243	0.543964
3000	0.599200	0.468138	0.429549
4500	0.468300	0.433436	0.405644
6000	0.427000	0.384873	0.344150
7500	0.377000	0.374003	0.323892
9000	0.337000	0.363674	0.306189
10500	0.302400	0.349884	0 .283908
12000	0.264100	0.344104	0.277120
13500	0 .254000	0.341820	0.271316
15000	0.208400	0.326502	0.260695
16500	0.203500	0.326209	0.250313
18000	0.159800	0.323539	0.239851
19500	0.158200	0.310694	0.230028
21000	0.132800	0.338318	0.229283
22500	0.112800	0.336765	0.224145
24000	0.103600	0.350208	0.227073
25500	0.091400	0.353609	0.221589
27000	0.084400	0.367826	0.212565

Usage

The model can be used directly as follows:

import librosa
import warnings
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForCTC
from datasets import Dataset, DatasetDict
from datasets import load_metric

wer_metric = load_metric("wer")

wolof = pd.read_csv('Test.csv') # wolof contains the columns of file , and transcription
wolof = DatasetDict({'test': Dataset.from_pandas(wolof)})

chars_to_ignore_regex = '[\"\?\.\!\-\;\:\(\)\,]'

def remove_special_characters(batch):
    batch["transcription"] = re.sub(chars_to_ignore_regex, '', batch["transcription"]).lower() + " "
    return batch
    
    
wolof = wolof.map(remove_special_characters)

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("abdouaziiz/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-wolof-lm")
model = AutoModelForCTC.from_pretrained("abdouaziiz/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-wolof-lm")

warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
    speech_array, sampling_rate = librosa.load(batch["file"], sr = 16000)
    batch["speech"] = speech_array.astype('float16')
    batch["sampling_rate"] = sampling_rate
    batch["target_text"] = batch["transcription"]
    return batch
 
wolof = wolof.map(speech_file_to_array_fn, remove_columns=wolof.column_names["test"], num_proc=1)   
  
def map_to_result(batch):
    model.to("cuda")
    input_values = processor(
      batch["speech"], 
      sampling_rate=batch["sampling_rate"], 
      return_tensors="pt"
    ).input_values.to("cuda")

    with torch.no_grad():
        logits = model(input_values).logits
        pred_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
        batch["pred_str"] = processor.batch_decode(pred_ids)[0]

    return batch
   
 results = wolof["test"].map(map_to_result) 
 
 print("Test WER: {:.3f}".format(wer_metric.compute(predictions=results["pred_str"], references=results["transcription"])))
 

PS:

The results obtained can be improved by using :

• Wav2vec2 + language model .
• Build a Spellcheker from the text of the data
• Sentence Edit Distance