---
license: mit
datasets:
- mozilla-foundation/common_voice_16_1
language:
- es
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition
tags:
- spanish
- español
- speech
- recognition
- whisper
- distil-whisper
---

# distil-whisper-large-v3-es
This is the repository for a distilled version of the [Whisper v3 large model](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3) trained on the [Mozilla Common Voice dataset v16.1](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mozilla-foundation/common_voice_16_1).
This model was possible through the collaboration of [SandboxAI](https://sandbox-ai.github.io) and the [Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro](https://www.unrn.edu.ar/home)

## Usage

Distil-Whisper is supported in Hugging Face 🤗 Transformers from version 4.35 onwards. To run the model, first 
install the latest version of the Transformers library. For this example, we'll also install 🤗 Datasets to load toy 
audio dataset from the Hugging Face Hub:

```bash
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade transformers accelerate datasets[audio]
```

### Short-Form Transcription

The model can be used with the [`pipeline`](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main_classes/pipelines#transformers.AutomaticSpeechRecognitionPipeline)
class to transcribe short-form audio files (< 30-seconds) as follows:

```python
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq, AutoProcessor, pipeline
from datasets import load_dataset
device = "cuda:0" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
torch_dtype = torch.float16 if torch.cuda.is_available() else torch.float32
model_id = "marianbasti/distil-whisper-large-v3-es"
model = AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq.from_pretrained(
    model_id, torch_dtype=torch_dtype, low_cpu_mem_usage=True, use_safetensors=True
)
model.to(device)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
pipe = pipeline(
    "automatic-speech-recognition",
    model=model,
    tokenizer=processor.tokenizer,
    feature_extractor=processor.feature_extractor,
    max_new_tokens=128,
    torch_dtype=torch_dtype,
    device=device,
)
dataset = load_dataset("hf-internal-testing/librispeech_asr_dummy", "clean", split="validation")
sample = dataset[0]["audio"]
result = pipe(sample)
print(result["text"])
```

To transcribe a local audio file, simply pass the path to your audio file when you call the pipeline:
```diff
- result = pipe(sample)
+ result = pipe("audio.mp3")
```

### Long-Form Transcription

Distil-Whisper uses a chunked algorithm to transcribe long-form audio files (> 30-seconds). In practice, this chunked long-form algorithm 
is 9x faster than the sequential algorithm proposed by OpenAI in the Whisper paper (see Table 7 of the [Distil-Whisper paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00430)).

To enable chunking, pass the `chunk_length_s` parameter to the `pipeline`. For Distil-Whisper, a chunk length of 15-seconds
is optimal. To activate batching, pass the argument `batch_size`:

```python
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq, AutoProcessor, pipeline
from datasets import load_dataset
device = "cuda:0" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
torch_dtype = torch.float16 if torch.cuda.is_available() else torch.float32
model_id = "marianbasti/distil-whisper-large-v3-es"
model = AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq.from_pretrained(
    model_id, torch_dtype=torch_dtype, low_cpu_mem_usage=True, use_safetensors=True
)
model.to(device)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
pipe = pipeline(
    "automatic-speech-recognition",
    model=model,
    tokenizer=processor.tokenizer,
    feature_extractor=processor.feature_extractor,
    max_new_tokens=128,
    chunk_length_s=15,
    batch_size=16,
    torch_dtype=torch_dtype,
    device=device,
)
dataset = load_dataset("distil-whisper/librispeech_long", "clean", split="validation")
sample = dataset[0]["audio"]
result = pipe(sample)
print(result["text"])
```

<!---
**Tip:** The pipeline can also be used to transcribe an audio file from a remote URL, for example:

```python
result = pipe("https://huggingface.co/datasets/sanchit-gandhi/librispeech_long/resolve/main/audio.wav")
```
--->

### Speculative Decoding

Distil-Whisper can be used as an assistant model to Whisper for [speculative decoding](https://huggingface.co/blog/whisper-speculative-decoding). 
Speculative decoding mathematically ensures the exact same outputs as Whisper are obtained while being 2 times faster. 
This makes it the perfect drop-in replacement for existing Whisper pipelines, since the same outputs are guaranteed.

In the following code-snippet, we load the assistant Distil-Whisper model standalone to the main Whisper pipeline. We then
specify it as the "assistant model" for generation:

```python
from transformers import pipeline, AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq, AutoProcessor
import torch
from datasets import load_dataset
device = "cuda:0" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
torch_dtype = torch.float16 if torch.cuda.is_available() else torch.float32
assistant_model_id = "marianbasti/distil-whisper-large-v3-es"
assistant_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    assistant_model_id, torch_dtype=torch_dtype, low_cpu_mem_usage=True, use_safetensors=True
)
assistant_model.to(device)
model_id = "openai/whisper-large-v3"
model = AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq.from_pretrained(
    model_id, torch_dtype=torch_dtype, low_cpu_mem_usage=True, use_safetensors=True
)
model.to(device)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
pipe = pipeline(
    "automatic-speech-recognition",
    model=model,
    tokenizer=processor.tokenizer,
    feature_extractor=processor.feature_extractor,
    max_new_tokens=128,
    generate_kwargs={"assistant_model": assistant_model},
    torch_dtype=torch_dtype,
    device=device,
)
dataset = load_dataset("hf-internal-testing/librispeech_asr_dummy", "clean", split="validation")
sample = dataset[0]["audio"]
result = pipe(sample)
print(result["text"])
```
## Training

The model was trained for 60,000 optimisation steps (or around 1.47 epochs), on a single RTX3090 for ~60 hours, using the following training parameters:
```
--teacher_model_name_or_path "openai/whisper-large-v3"
--train_dataset_name "mozilla-foundation/common_voice_16_1"
--train_dataset_config_name "es"
--train_split_name "train"
--text_column_name "sentence"
--eval_dataset_name "mozilla-foundation/common_voice_16_1"
--eval_dataset_config_name "es"
--eval_split_name "validation"
--eval_text_column_name "sentence"
--eval_steps 10000
--save_steps 10000
--warmup_steps 500
--learning_rate 1e-4
--lr_scheduler_type "linear"
--logging_steps 25
--save_total_limit 1
--max_steps 60000
--wer_threshold 10
--per_device_train_batch_size 8
--per_device_eval_batch_size 8
--dataloader_num_workers 12
--preprocessing_num_workers 12
--output_dir "./"
--do_train
--do_eval
--gradient_checkpointing
--predict_with_generate
--overwrite_output_dir
--use_pseudo_labels "false"
--freeze_encoder
--streaming False
```

## Results

The distilled model performs with a 5.11% WER (10.15% orthogonal WER).

## License

Distil-Whisper inherits the [MIT license](https://github.com/huggingface/distil-whisper/blob/main/LICENSE) from OpenAI's Whisper model.

## Citation

If you use this model, please consider citing the [Distil-Whisper paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00430):
```
@misc{gandhi2023distilwhisper,
      title={Distil-Whisper: Robust Knowledge Distillation via Large-Scale Pseudo Labelling}, 
      author={Sanchit Gandhi and Patrick von Platen and Alexander M. Rush},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2311.00430},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```