language: ml datasets:

• Indic TTS Malayalam Speech Corpus
• Openslr Malayalam Speech Corpus
• SMC Malayalam Speech Corpus
• IIIT-H Indic Speech Databases metrics:
• wer tags:
• audio
• automatic-speech-recognition
• speech
• xlsr-fine-tuning-week license: apache-2.0 model-index:
• name: Malayalam XLSR Wav2Vec2 Large 53 results:
  • task: name: Speech Recognition type: automatic-speech-recognition dataset: name: Test split of combined dataset using all datasets mentioned above type: custom args: ml metrics:
    • name: Test WER type: wer value: 28.43

Wav2Vec2-Large-XLSR-53-ml

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on ml (Malayalam) using the Indic TTS Malayalam Speech Corpus (via Kaggle), Openslr Malayalam Speech Corpus, SMC Malayalam Speech Corpus and IIIT-H Indic Speech Databases. The notebooks used to train model are available here. When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz.

Usage

The model can be used directly (without a language model) as follows:

import torch
import torchaudio
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor

test_dataset = <load-test-split-of-combined-dataset> # Details on loading this dataset in the evaluation section

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("gvs/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-malayalam")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("gvs/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-malayalam")

resampler = torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
  speech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
  batch["speech"] = resampler(speech_array).squeeze().numpy()
  return batch

test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)
inputs = processor(test_dataset["speech"][:2], sampling_rate=16_000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)

with torch.no_grad():
  logits = model(inputs.input_values, attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask).logits

predicted_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)

print("Prediction:", processor.batch_decode(predicted_ids))
print("Reference:", test_dataset["sentence"])

Evaluation

The model can be evaluated as follows on the test data of combined custom dataset. For more details on dataset preparation, check the notebooks mentioned at the end of this file.

import torch
import torchaudio
from datasets import load_dataset, load_metric
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
import re
from datasets import load_dataset, load_metric
from pathlib import Path

# The custom dataset needs to be created using notebook mentioned at the end of this file
data_dir = Path('<path-to-custom-dataset>')

dataset_folders = {
    'iiit': 'iiit_mal_abi',
    'openslr': 'openslr',
    'indic-tts': 'indic-tts-ml',
    'msc-reviewed': 'msc-reviewed-speech-v1.0+20200825',
}

# Set directories for datasets
openslr_male_dir = data_dir / dataset_folders['openslr'] / 'male'
openslr_female_dir = data_dir / dataset_folders['openslr'] / 'female'
iiit_dir = data_dir / dataset_folders['iiit']
indic_tts_male_dir = data_dir / dataset_folders['indic-tts'] / 'male'
indic_tts_female_dir = data_dir / dataset_folders['indic-tts'] / 'female'
msc_reviewed_dir = data_dir / dataset_folders['msc-reviewed']

# Load the datasets
openslr_male = load_dataset("json", data_files=[f"{str(openslr_male_dir.absolute())}/sample_{i}.json" for i in range(2023)], split="train")
openslr_female = load_dataset("json", data_files=[f"{str(openslr_female_dir.absolute())}/sample_{i}.json" for i in range(2103)], split="train")
iiit = load_dataset("json", data_files=[f"{str(iiit_dir.absolute())}/sample_{i}.json" for i in range(1000)], split="train")
indic_tts_male = load_dataset("json", data_files=[f"{str(indic_tts_male_dir.absolute())}/sample_{i}.json" for i in range(5649)], split="train")
indic_tts_female = load_dataset("json", data_files=[f"{str(indic_tts_female_dir.absolute())}/sample_{i}.json" for i in range(2950)], split="train")
msc_reviewed = load_dataset("json", data_files=[f"{str(msc_reviewed_dir.absolute())}/sample_{i}.json" for i in range(1541)], split="train")

# Create test split as 20%, set random seed as well.
test_size = 0.2
random_seed=1
openslr_male_splits = openslr_male.train_test_split(test_size=test_size, seed=random_seed)
openslr_female_splits = openslr_female.train_test_split(test_size=test_size, seed=random_seed)
iiit_splits = iiit.train_test_split(test_size=test_size, seed=random_seed)
indic_tts_male_splits = indic_tts_male.train_test_split(test_size=test_size, seed=random_seed)
indic_tts_female_splits = indic_tts_female.train_test_split(test_size=test_size, seed=random_seed)
msc_reviewed_splits = msc_reviewed.train_test_split(test_size=test_size, seed=random_seed)

# Get combined test dataset
split_list = [openslr_male_splits, openslr_female_splits, indic_tts_male_splits, indic_tts_female_splits, msc_reviewed_splits, iiit_splits]
test_dataset = datasets.concatenate_datasets([split['test'] for split in split_list)

wer = load_metric("wer")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained("gvs/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-malayalam") 
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained("gvs/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-malayalam")
model.to("cuda")

resamplers = {
    48000: torchaudio.transforms.Resample(48_000, 16_000),
}

chars_to_ignore_regex = '[\\\\,\\\\?\\\\.\\\\!\\\\-\\\\;\\\\:\\\\"\\\\“\\\\%\\\\‘\\\\”\\\\�Utrnle\\\\_]'
unicode_ignore_regex = r'[\\\\u200e]'

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
    batch["sentence"] = re.sub(chars_to_ignore_regex, '', batch["sentence"])
    batch["sentence"] = re.sub(unicode_ignore_regex, '', batch["sentence"])
    speech_array, sampling_rate = torchaudio.load(batch["path"])
    # Resample if its not in 16kHz
    if sampling_rate != 16000:
        batch["speech"] = resamplers[sampling_rate](speech_array).squeeze().numpy()
    else:
        batch["speech"] = speech_array.squeeze().numpy()
    # If more than one dimension is present, pick first one
    if batch["speech"].ndim > 1:
        batch["speech"] = batch["speech"][0]
    return batch

test_dataset = test_dataset.map(speech_file_to_array_fn)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio files as arrays
def evaluate(batch):
  inputs = processor(batch["speech"], sampling_rate=16_000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)

  with torch.no_grad():
    logits = model(inputs.input_values.to("cuda"), attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask.to("cuda")).logits

  pred_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
  batch["pred_strings"] = processor.batch_decode(pred_ids)
  return batch

result = test_dataset.map(evaluate, batched=True, batch_size=8)

print("WER: {:2f}".format(100 * wer.compute(predictions=result["pred_strings"], references=result["sentence"])))

Test Result (WER): 28.43 %

Training

A combined dataset was created using Indic TTS Malayalam Speech Corpus (via Kaggle), Openslr Malayalam Speech Corpus, SMC Malayalam Speech Corpus and IIIT-H Indic Speech Databases. The datasets were downloaded and was converted to HF Dataset format using this notebook

The notebook used for training and evaluation can be found here