Introduction to Hugging Face’s Transformers v4.3.0 and its First Automatic Speech Recognition Model – Wav2Vec2

Overview Hugging Face has released Transformers v4.3.0 and it introduces the first Automatic Speech Recognition model to the library: Wav2Vec2 Using one hour of labeled data, Wav2Vec2 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 Wav2Vec2 achieves 4.8/8.2 WER Understand Wav2Vec2 implementation using transformers library on audio to text generation Introduction Transformers has been […]

Learn how to Build your own Speech-to-Text Model (using Python)

Overview Learn how to build your very own speech-to-text model using Python in this article The ability to weave deep learning skills with NLP is a coveted one in the industry; add this to your skillset today We will use a real-world dataset and build this speech-to-text model so get ready to use your Python skills! Introduction “Hey Google. What’s the weather like today?” This will sound familiar to anyone who has owned a smartphone in the last decade. […]