This model is a fine-tuned version of openai/whisper-large-v2 on the Telugu data available from multiple publicly available ASR corpuses. It has been fine-tuned as a part of the Whisper fine-tuning sprint.

NOTE: The code used to train this model is available for re-use in the whisper-finetune repository.

Usage

In order to evaluate this model on an entire dataset, the evaluation codes available in the whisper-finetune repository can be used.

The same repository also provides the scripts for faster inference using whisper-jax.

In order to infer a single audio file using this model, the following code snippet can be used:

python

>>> import torch
>>> from transformers import pipeline

>>> # path to the audio file to be transcribed
>>> audio = "/path/to/audio.format"
>>> device = "cuda:0" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"

>>> transcribe = pipeline(task="automatic-speech-recognition", model="lamyer/Telugu-transcription", chunk_length_s=30, device=device)
>>> transcribe.model.config.forced_decoder_ids = transcribe.tokenizer.get_decoder_prompt_ids(language="te", task="transcribe")

>>> print('Transcription: ', transcribe(audio)["text"])

For faster inference of whisper models, the whisper-jax library can be used. Please follow the necessary installation steps as mentioned here, before using the following code snippet:

python

>>> import jax.numpy as jnp
>>> from whisper_jax import FlaxWhisperForConditionalGeneration, FlaxWhisperPipline

>>> # path to the audio file to be transcribed
>>> audio = "/path/to/audio.format"

>>> transcribe = FlaxWhisperPipline("lamyer/Telugu-transcription", batch_size=16)
>>> transcribe.model.config.forced_decoder_ids = transcribe.tokenizer.get_decoder_prompt_ids(language="te", task="transcribe")

>>> print('Transcription: ', transcribe(audio)["text"])

Training and evaluation data

Training Data:

CSTD IIIT-H ASR Corpus
ULCA ASR Corpus
Shrutilipi ASR Corpus
Microsoft Speech Corpus (Indian Languages)
Google/Fleurs Train+Dev set
Babel ASR Corpus

Evaluation Data:

Microsoft Speech Corpus (Indian Languages) Test Set
Google/Fleurs Test Set
OpenSLR
Babel Test Set

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

learning_rate: 0.75e-05
train_batch_size: 8
eval_batch_size: 32
seed: 22
optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
lr_scheduler_type: linear
lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 22000
training_steps: 75000
mixed_precision_training: True

Acknowledgement

This work was done at Speech Lab, IIT Madras.

The compute resources for this work were funded by "Bhashini: National Language translation Mission" project of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.