From 5dadc39499236372382065d81328a3f64f3d7512 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick von Platen Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 22:28:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 17fb52b..117abe2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ The base model pretrained and fine-tuned on 960 hours of Librispeech. Authors: Alexei Baevski, Henry Zhou, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Michael Auli **Abstract** + We show for the first time that learning powerful representations from speech audio alone followed by fine-tuning on transcribed speech can outperform the best semi-supervised methods while being conceptually simpler. wav2vec 2.0 masks the speech input in the latent space and solves a contrastive task defined over a quantization of the latent representations which are jointly learned. Experiments using all labeled data of Librispeech achieve 1.8/3.3 WER on the clean/other test sets. When lowering the amount of labeled data to one hour, wav2vec 2.0 outperforms the previous state of the art on the 100 hour subset while using 100 times less labeled data. Using just ten minutes of labeled data and pre-training on 53k hours of unlabeled data still achieves 4.8/8.2 WER. This demonstrates the feasibility of speech recognition with limited amounts of labeled data. The original model can be found under https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/master/examples/wav2vec#wav2vec-20. @@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ The original model can be found under https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/ma # Usage -The model can be used as follows to classify some speech input +To transcribe audio files the model can be used as a standalone acoustic model as follows: ```python from transformers import Wav2Vec2Tokenizer, Wav2Vec2Model