This collection contains large size versions of Conformer-RNNT (around 120M parameters) trained on MCV-10-Be with around 500 hours of belarusian speech. The model transcribes speech in lower case Belarusian alphabet, note that 'i' is differs from english 'i'.
Trained or fine-tuned NeMo models (with the file extenstion .nemo
) can be converted to Riva models (with the file extension .riva
) and then deployed. Here is a pre-trained Conformer-RNNT speech-to-text (STT) -- a.k.a. automatic speech recognition (ASR) -- Riva model.
Conformer-RNNT model is a non-autoregressive variant of Conformer model [1] for Automatic Speech Recognition which uses RNNT loss/decoding instead of Transducer. You may find more info on the detail of this model here: Conformer-RNNT Model.
The NeMo toolkit [3] was used for training the models for over several dozen 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.
As start point pretrained "STT En conformer-RNNT Large" was taken, and then fine-tuned to Belarusian.
Model was trined on MCV-10-Be dataset with 465h for train, 26 on test, 25 on dev.
Performances of the ASR models are reported in terms of Word Error Rate (WER%) with greedy decoding. WER on dev is 3.8%
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.
import nemo.collections.asr as nemo_asr
asr_model = nemo_asr.models.EncDecCTCModelBPE.from_pretrained(model_name="stt_be_conformer_transducer_large")
python [NEMO_GIT_FOLDER]/examples/asr/transcribe_speech.py \
pretrained_name="stt_be_conformer_transducer_large" \
audio_dir=""
This model accepts 16000 Hz Mono-channel Audio (wav files) as input.
This model provides transcribed speech as a string for a given audio sample.
Since all models are trained on just MCV-10 dataset, 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.
[1] Conformer: Convolution-augmented Transformer for Speech Recognition
[2] Google Sentencepiece Tokenizer
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