| # Model Card for LatAm Accent Determination | |
| Wav2Vec2 Model to classify audio based on the accent of the speaker as Puerto Rican, Colombian, Venezuelan, Peruvian, or Chilean | |
| # Table of Contents | |
| - [Model Card for LatAm Accent Determination](#model-card-for--model_id-) | |
| - [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents) | |
| - [Model Details](#model-details) | |
| - [Model Description](#model-description) | |
| - [Uses](#uses) | |
| - [Direct Use](#direct-use) | |
| - [Out-of-Scope Use](#out-of-scope-use) | |
| - [Bias, Risks, and Limitations](#bias-risks-and-limitations) | |
| - [Training Details](#training-details) | |
| - [Training Data](#training-data) | |
| - [Training Procedure](#training-procedure) | |
| - [Preprocessing](#preprocessing) | |
| - [Speeds, Sizes, Times](#speeds-sizes-times) | |
| - [Evaluation](#evaluation) | |
| - [Testing Data, Factors & Metrics](#testing-data-factors--metrics) | |
| - [Testing Data](#testing-data) | |
| - [Factors](#factors) | |
| - [Metrics](#metrics) | |
| - [Results](#results) | |
| - [Model Examination](#model-examination) | |
| - [Technical Specs](#technical-specifications) | |
| - [Model Architecture and Objective](#model-architecture-and-objective) | |
| - [Compute Infrastructure](#compute-infrastructure) | |
| - [Hardware](#hardware) | |
| - [Software](#software) | |
| - [Citation](#citation) | |
| - [Model Card Authors](#model-card-authors) | |
| - [Model Card Contact](#model-card-contact) | |
| - [How to Get Started with the Model](#how-to-get-started-with-the-model) | |
| # Model Details | |
| ## Model Description | |
| Wav2Vec2 Model to classify audio based on the accent of the speaker as Puerto Rican, Colombian, Venezuelan, Peruvian, or Chilean | |
| - **Developed by:** Henry Savich | |
| - **Shared by [Optional]:** Henry Savich | |
| - **Model type:** Language model | |
| - **Language(s) (NLP):** es | |
| - **License:** openrail | |
| - **Parent Model:** Wav2Vec2 Base | |
| - **Resources for more information:** | |
| - [GitHub Repo](https://github.com/HSavich/dialect_discrimination) | |
| # Uses | |
| ## Direct Use | |
| Classify an audio clip as Puerto Rican, Peruvian, Venezuelan, Colombian, or Chilean Spanish | |
| ## Out-of-Scope Use | |
| The model was trained on speakers reciting pre-chosen sentences, thus it does not reflect any knowledge of lexical differences between dialects. | |
| # Bias, Risks, and Limitations | |
| Significant research has explored bias and fairness issues with language models (see, e.g., [Sheng et al. (2021)](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.330.pdf) and [Bender et al. (2021)](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922)). Predictions generated by the model may include disturbing and harmful stereotypes across protected classes; identity characteristics; and sensitive, social, and occupational groups. | |
| # Training Details | |
| ## Training Data | |
| OpenSLR 71,72,73,74,75,76 | |
| ## Training Procedure | |
| ### Preprocessing | |
| Data was Train-Test split on speakers, so as to prevent the model from achieving high test accuracy by matching voices. | |
| ### Speeds, Sizes, Times | |
| Trained on ~3000 5-second audio clips, Training is lightwegiht taking < 1 hr on using Google Colaboratory Premium GPUs | |
| # Evaluation | |
| ## Testing Data, Factors & Metrics | |
| ### Testing Data | |
| OpenSLR 71,72,73,74,75,76 | |
| https://huggingface.co/datasets/openslr | |
| ### Factors | |
| Audio Quality - training and testing data was higher quality than can be expected from found audio | |
| ### Metrics | |
| Accuracy | |
| ## Results | |
| ~85% depending on random train-test split | |
| # Model Examination | |
| Even splitting on speakers, our model achieves excellent accuracy on the testing set. This is interesting because it indicates that accent classification, at least at this granularity, is an easier task than voice identification, which could have just as easily met the training objective. | |
| The confusion matrix shows that Basque is the most easily distinguished, which should be expecting as it is the only language that isn't Spanish. Puerto Rican was the hardest to identify in the testing set, but I think this is more having to do with PR having the least data moreso than something about the accent itself. | |
| I think if this same size of dataset was used for this same experiment, but there were more speakers (and so not as much fitting on individual voices), we could expect near perfect accuracy. | |
| # Technical Specifications | |
| ## Model Architecture and Objective | |
| Wav2Vec2 | |
| ## Compute Infrastructure | |
| Google Colaboratory Pro+ | |
| ### Hardware | |
| Google Colaboratory Pro+ Premium GPUS | |
| ### Software | |
| Pytorch via huggingface | |
| # Model Card Authors | |
| Henry Savich | |
| # Model Card Contact | |
| henry.h.savich@vanderbilt.edu | |