HuggingSound

HuggingSound: A toolkit for speech-related tasks based on HuggingFace's tools.

I have no intention of building a very complex tool here. I just wanna have an easy-to-use toolkit for my speech-related experiments. I hope this library could be helpful for someone else too :)

Requirements

• Python 3.8+

Installation

console $ pip install huggingsound

How to use it?

I'll try to summarize the usage of this toolkit. But many things will be missing from the documentation below. I promise to make it better soon. For now, you can open an issue if you have some questions or look at the source code to see how it works. You can check more usage examples in the repository examples folder.

Speech recognition

For speech recognition you can use any CTC model hosted on the Hugging Face Hub. You can find some available models here.

Inference

```python from huggingsound import SpeechRecognitionModel

model = SpeechRecognitionModel("jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-english") audio_paths = ["/path/to/sagan.mp3", "/path/to/asimov.wav"]

transcriptions = model.transcribe(audio_paths)

print(transcriptions)

transcriptions format (a list of dicts, one for each audio file):

[

{

"transcription": "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence",

"start_timestamps": [100, 120, 140, 180, ...],

"end_timestamps": [120, 140, 180, 200, ...],

"probabilities": [0.95, 0.88, 0.9, 0.97, ...]

},

...]

as you can see, not only the transcription is returned but also the timestamps (in milliseconds)

and probabilities of each character of the transcription.

```

Inference (boosted by a language model)

```python from huggingsound import SpeechRecognitionModel, KenshoLMDecoder

model = SpeechRecognitionModel("jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-english") audio_paths = ["/path/to/sagan.mp3", "/path/to/asimov.wav"]

The LM format used by the LM decoders is the KenLM format (arpa or binary file).

You can download some LM files examples from here: https://huggingface.co/jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-english/tree/main/language_model

lmpath = "path/to/your/lmfiles/lm.binary" unigramspath = "path/to/your/lmfiles/unigrams.txt"

We implemented three different decoders for LM boosted decoding: KenshoLMDecoder, ParlanceLMDecoder, and FlashlightLMDecoder

On this example, we'll use the KenshoLMDecoder

To use this decoder you'll need to install the Kensho's ctcdecode first (https://github.com/kensho-technologies/pyctcdecode)

decoder = KenshoLMDecoder(model.tokenset, lmpath=lmpath, unigramspath=unigrams_path)

transcriptions = model.transcribe(audio_paths, decoder=decoder)

print(transcriptions)

```

Evaluation

```python from huggingsound import SpeechRecognitionModel

model = SpeechRecognitionModel("jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-english")

references = [ {"path": "/path/to/sagan.mp3", "transcription": "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"}, {"path": "/path/to/asimov.wav", "transcription": "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"}, ]

evaluation = model.evaluate(references)

print(evaluation)

evaluation format: {"wer": 0.08, "cer": 0.02}

```

Fine-tuning

```python from huggingsound import TrainingArguments, ModelArguments, SpeechRecognitionModel, TokenSet

model = SpeechRecognitionModel("facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53") output_dir = "my/finetuned/model/output/dir"

first of all, you need to define your model's token set

however, the token set is only needed for non-finetuned models

if you pass a new token set for an already finetuned model, it'll be ignored during training

tokens = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z", "'"] token_set = TokenSet(tokens)

define your train/eval data

traindata = [ {"path": "/path/to/sagan.mp3", "transcription": "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"}, {"path": "/path/to/asimov.wav", "transcription": "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"}, ] evaldata = [ {"path": "/path/to/sagan2.mp3", "transcription": "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"}, {"path": "/path/to/asimov2.wav", "transcription": "the true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing"}, ]

and finally, fine-tune your model

model.finetune( outputdir, traindata=traindata, evaldata=evaldata, # the evaldata is optional tokenset=tokenset, )

```

Troubleshooting

• If you are having trouble when loading MP3 files: $ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Want to help?

See the contribution guidelines if you'd like to contribute to HuggingSound project.

You don't even need to know how to code to contribute to the project. Even the improvement of our documentation is an outstanding contribution.

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Citation

If you want to cite the tool you can use this:

bibtex @misc{grosman2022huggingsound, title={{HuggingSound: A toolkit for speech-related tasks based on Hugging Face's tools}}, author={Grosman, Jonatas}, howpublished={\url{https://github.com/jonatasgrosman/huggingsound}}, year={2022} }