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Speech to Text Citrinet Notebook

Speech to Text Citrinet Notebook

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Description
End to End workflow for speech to text citrinet training with TAO Toolkit and deployment using Riva.
Publisher
NVIDIA
Latest Version
v1.4
Modified
April 4, 2023
Compressed Size
12.66 KB

Automatic Speech Recognition

ASR, or Automatic Speech Recognition, refers to the problem of getting a program to automatically transcribe spoken language (speech-to-text). Our goal is usually to have a model that minimizes the Word Error Rate (WER) metric when transcribing speech input. In other words, given some audio file (e.g. a WAV file) containing speech.

The best place to get started with TAO Toolkit - ASR would be the TAO - ASR jupyter notebooks sample enclosed in this sample. This resource has two notebooks included.

  1. Training: Sample workflow for training an ASR - Citrinet model and export the model to a .riva file
  2. Deployment: Sample workflow to consume the .riva file and deploy it to Riva.

If you are a seasoned Conversation AI developer we recommend installing TAO and referring to the TAO documentation for detailed information.

Pre-Requisites

Please make sure to install the following before proceeding further:

  • python 3.6.9
  • docker-ce > 19.03.5
  • docker-API 1.40
  • nvidia-container-toolkit > 1.3.0-1
  • nvidia-container-runtime > 3.4.0-1
  • nvidia-docker2 > 2.5.0-1
  • nvidia-driver >= 455.23

Note: A compatible NVIDIA GPU would be required.

Installation

We recommend that you install TAO Toolkit inside a virtual environment. The steps to do the same are as follows 

virtualenv -p python3 <name of venv>
source <name of venv>/bin/activate
pip install jupyter notebook # If you need to run the notebooks

TAO Toolkit is a python package that is hosted in nvidia python package index. You may install by using python’s package manager, pip.

pip install nvidia-pyindex
pip install nvidia-tao

To download the jupyter notebook please:

  1. Download the samples using the ngc cli with the following command
ngc registry resource download-version "nvidia/tao/speechtotext_citrinet_notebook:v1.0"
  1. Instantiate the jupyter notebook server
jupyter notebook --ip 0.0.0.0 --allow-root --port 8888

License

By downloading and using the models and resources packaged with TAO Toolkit Conversational AI, you would be accepting the terms of the Riva license