---
language:
- multilingual
- ain
license: apache-2.0
---

## Wav2Vec2-Large-XLSR-53 pretrained on Ainu language data

This is a [wav2vec-large-xlsr-53](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53) model after continued  pretraining for 100k steps on 234 hours of speech data in Sakhalin Ainu and Hokkaido Ainu.
For details, please refer to the [paper]() (see below).

## Citation
When using the model please cite the following paper (in press):
```bibtex
@article{nowakowski2022,
  title={Adapting Multilingual Speech Representation Model for a New, Underresourced Language through Multilingual Fine-tuning and Continued Pretraining},
  author={Nowakowski, Karol and Ptaszynski, Michal and Murasaki, Kyoko and Nieuważny, Jagna},
  year={2022},
  booktitle={}
}
```