Making automatic speech recognition work on large files with Wav2Vec2 in ๐Ÿค— Transformers

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Use Wav2Vec2 with chunking to achieve high-quality automatic speech recognition on large files or during live inference

intermediate Published 1 Feb 2022
Action Steps
  1. Split large audio files into smaller chunks
  2. Apply Wav2Vec2 to each chunk with or without stride
  3. Combine the results for final transcription
  4. Optimize chunk size and stride for best performance
Who Needs to Know This

This benefits machine learning engineers and speech recognition developers who need to process long audio files, as it allows them to leverage the strengths of Wav2Vec2 while working around its sequence length limitations.

Key Insight

๐Ÿ’ก Chunking allows Wav2Vec2 to handle arbitrarily long audio files

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