metadata

language:
  - en
library_name: nemo
datasets:
  - librispeech_asr
  - fisher_corpus
  - Switchboard-1
  - WSJ-0
  - WSJ-1
  - National-Singapore-Corpus-Part-1
  - National-Singapore-Corpus-Part-6
  - vctk
  - VoxPopuli-(EN)
  - Europarl-ASR-(EN)
  - Multilingual-LibriSpeech-(2000-hours)
  - mozilla-foundation/common_voice_8_0
  - MLCommons/peoples_speech
thumbnail: null
tags:
  - automatic-speech-recognition
  - speech
  - audio
  - Transducer
  - Conformer
  - Transformer
  - pytorch
  - NeMo
  - hf-asr-leaderboard
license: cc-by-4.0
widget:
  - example_title: Librispeech sample 1
    src: https://cdn-media.huggingface.co/speech_samples/sample1.flac
  - example_title: Librispeech sample 2
    src: https://cdn-media.huggingface.co/speech_samples/sample2.flac
model-index:
  - name: stt_en_conformer_transducer_large
    results:
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: LibriSpeech (clean)
          type: librispeech_asr
          config: clean
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 1.7
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: LibriSpeech (other)
          type: librispeech_asr
          config: other
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 3.7
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Multilingual LibriSpeech
          type: facebook/multilingual_librispeech
          config: english
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 5.8
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Mozilla Common Voice 8.0
          type: mozilla-foundation/common_voice_8_0
          config: en
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 7.8
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Wall Street Journal 92
          type: wsj_0
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 1.5
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Wall Street Journal 93
          type: wsj_1
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 2.1
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: National Singapore Corpus
          type: nsc_part_1
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 5.9

NVIDIA Conformer-Transducer Large (en-US)

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This model transcribes speech in lower case English alphabet along with spaces and apostrophes. It is a large version of Conformer-Transducer (around 120M parameters) model.
See the model architecture section and NeMo documentation for complete architecture details.

NVIDIA NeMo: Training

To train, fine-tune or play with the model you will need to install NVIDIA NeMo. We recommend you install it after you've installed latest Pytorch version.

pip install nemo_toolkit['all']

How to Use this Model

The model is available for use in the NeMo toolkit [3], and can be used as a pre-trained checkpoint for inference or for fine-tuning on another dataset.

Automatically instantiate the model

import nemo.collections.asr as nemo_asr
asr_model = nemo_asr.models.EncDecRNNTBPEModel.from_pretrained("nvidia/stt_en_conformer_transducer_large")

Transcribing using Python

First, let's get a sample

wget https://dldata-public.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2086-149220-0033.wav

Then simply do:

asr_model.transcribe(['2086-149220-0033.wav'])

Transcribing many audio files

python [NEMO_GIT_FOLDER]/examples/asr/transcribe_speech.py 
 pretrained_name="nvidia/stt_en_conformer_transducer_large" 
 audio_dir="<DIRECTORY CONTAINING AUDIO FILES>"

Input

This model accepts 16000 KHz Mono-channel Audio (wav files) as input.

Output

This model provides transcribed speech as a string for a given audio sample.

Model Architecture

Conformer-Transducer model is an autoregressive variant of Conformer model [1] for Automatic Speech Recognition which uses Transducer loss/decoding instead of CTC Loss. You may find more info on the detail of this model here: Conformer-Transducer Model.

Training

The NeMo toolkit [3] was used for training the models for over several hundred epochs. These model are trained with this example script and this base config.

The tokenizers for these models were built using the text transcripts of the train set with this script.

Datasets

All the models in this collection are trained on a composite dataset (NeMo ASRSET) comprising of several thousand hours of English speech:

Librispeech 960 hours of English speech
Fisher Corpus
Switchboard-1 Dataset
WSJ-0 and WSJ-1
National Speech Corpus (Part 1, Part 6)
VCTK
VoxPopuli (EN)
Europarl-ASR (EN)
Multilingual Librispeech (MLS EN) - 2,000 hrs subset
Mozilla Common Voice (v8.0)
People's Speech - 12,000 hrs subset

Note: older versions of the model may have trained on smaller set of datasets.

Performance

The list of the available models in this collection is shown in the following table. Performances of the ASR models are reported in terms of Word Error Rate (WER%) with greedy decoding.

Version	Tokenizer	Vocabulary Size	LS test-other	LS test-clean	WSJ Eval92	WSJ Dev93	NSC Part 1	MLS Test	MCV Test 6.1	MCV Test 8.0	Train Dataset
1.10.0	SentencePiece Unigram	1024	3.7	1.7	1.5	2.1	5.9	5.8	6.5	7.8	NeMo ASRSET 3.0

Limitations

Since this model was trained on publicly available speech datasets, the performance of this model might degrade for speech which includes technical terms, or vernacular that the model has not been trained on. The model might also perform worse for accented speech.

NVIDIA Riva: Deployment

NVIDIA Riva, is an accelerated speech AI SDK deployable on-prem, in all clouds, multi-cloud, hybrid, on edge, and embedded. Additionally, Riva provides:

World-class out-of-the-box accuracy for the most common languages with model checkpoints trained on proprietary data with hundreds of thousands of GPU-compute hours
Best in class accuracy with run-time word boosting (e.g., brand and product names) and customization of acoustic model, language model, and inverse text normalization
Streaming speech recognition, Kubernetes compatible scaling, and enterprise-grade support

Although this model isn’t supported yet by Riva, the list of supported models is here.
Check out Riva live demo.

References

[1] Conformer: Convolution-augmented Transformer for Speech Recognition [2] Google Sentencepiece Tokenizer [3] NVIDIA NeMo Toolkit

Licence

License to use this model is covered by the CC-BY-4.0. By downloading the public and release version of the model, you accept the terms and conditions of the CC-BY-4.0 license.