Facebook's Wav2Vec2 XLS-R fine-tuned for Speech Translation.

This is a SpeechEncoderDecoderModel model. The encoder was warm-started from the facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-2b checkpoint and the decoder from the facebook/mbart-large-50 checkpoint. Consequently, the encoder-decoder model was fine-tuned on {input_lang} -> {output_lang} translation pairs of the Covost2 dataset.

The model can translate from the following spoken languages {input_lang} to the following written languages {output_lang}:

{input_lang} -> {output_lang}

with {input_lang} one of:

{en, fr, de, es, ca, it, ru, zh-CN, pt, fa, et, mn, nl, tr, ar, sv-SE, lv, sl, ta, ja, id, cy}

and {output_lang}:

{en, de, tr, fa, sv-SE, mn, zh-CN, cy, ca, sl, et, id, ar, ta, lv, ja}

The model can be tested on this space. You can select the target language, record some audio in any of the above mentioned input languages, and then sit back and see how well the checkpoint can translate the input.

As this a standard sequence to sequence transformer model, you can use the generate method to generate the transcripts by passing the speech features to the model.

You can use the model directly via the ASR pipeline. By default, the checkpoint will translate spoken English to written German. To change the written target language, you need to pass the correct forced_bos_token_id to generate(...) to condition the decoder on the correct target language.

To select the correct forced_bos_token_id given your choosen language id, please make use of the following mapping:

As an example, if you would like to translate to Swedish, you can do the following:

or step-by-step as follows: