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# Automatic Speech Recognition Examples

## Table of Contents

- [Automatic Speech Recognition with CTC](#connectionist-temporal-classification)
	- [Single GPU example](#single-gpu-ctc)
	- [Multi GPU example](#multi-gpu-ctc)
	- [Examples](#examples-ctc)
		- [TIMIT](#timit-ctc)
		- [Librispeech](#librispeech-ctc)
		- [Common Voice](#common-voice-ctc)
		- [Multilingual Librispeech](#multilingual-librispeech-ctc)
- [Automatic Speech Recognition with Sequence-to-Sequence](#sequence-to-sequence)
	- [Single GPU example](#single-gpu-seq2seq)
	- [Multi GPU example](#multi-gpu-seq2seq)
	- [Examples](#examples-seq2seq)
		- [Librispeech](#librispeech-seq2seq)

## Connectionist Temporal Classification

The script [`run_speech_recognition_ctc.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_ctc.py) can be used to fine-tune any pretrained [Connectionist Temporal Classification Model](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/auto#transformers.AutoModelForCTC) for automatic speech 
recognition on one of the [official speech recognition datasets](https://huggingface.co/datasets?task_ids=task_ids:automatic-speech-recognition) or a custom dataset.

Speech recognition models that have been pretrained in unsupervised fashion on audio data alone, *e.g.* [Wav2Vec2](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main/model_doc/wav2vec2.html), [HuBERT](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main/model_doc/hubert.html), [XLSR-Wav2Vec2](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main/model_doc/xlsr_wav2vec2.html), have shown to require only 
very little annotated data to yield good performance on automatic speech recognition datasets.

In the script [`run_speech_recognition_ctc`], we first create a vocabulary from all unique characters of both the training data and evaluation data. Then, we preprocesses the speech recognition dataset, which includes correct resampling, normalization and padding. Finally, the pretrained speech recognition model is fine-tuned on the annotated speech recognition datasets using CTC loss.

---
**NOTE**

If you encounter problems with data preprocessing by setting `--preprocessing_num_workers` > 1, 
you might want to set the environment variable `OMP_NUM_THREADS` to 1 as follows:

```bash
OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 python run_speech_recognition_ctc ...
```

If the environment variable is not set, the training script might freeze, *i.e.* see: https://github.com/pytorch/audio/issues/1021#issuecomment-726915239

---

### Single GPU CTC

The following command shows how to fine-tune [XLSR-Wav2Vec2](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main/model_doc/xlsr_wav2vec2.html) on [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice) using a single GPU in half-precision.

```bash
python run_speech_recognition_ctc.py \
	--dataset_name="common_voice" \
	--model_name_or_path="facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53" \
	--dataset_config_name="tr" \
	--output_dir="./wav2vec2-common_voice-tr-demo" \
	--overwrite_output_dir \
	--num_train_epochs="15" \
	--per_device_train_batch_size="16" \
	--gradient_accumulation_steps="2" \
	--learning_rate="3e-4" \
	--warmup_steps="500" \
	--evaluation_strategy="steps" \
	--text_column_name="sentence" \
	--length_column_name="input_length" \
	--save_steps="400" \
	--eval_steps="100" \
	--layerdrop="0.0" \
	--save_total_limit="3" \
	--freeze_feature_encoder \
	--gradient_checkpointing \
	--chars_to_ignore , ? . ! - \; \: \" “ % ‘ ” � \
	--fp16 \
	--group_by_length \
	--push_to_hub \
	--do_train --do_eval 
```

On a single V100 GPU, this script should run in *ca.* 1 hour 20 minutes and yield a CTC loss of **0.39** and word error rate
of **0.35**.

### Multi GPU CTC

The following command shows how to fine-tune [XLSR-Wav2Vec2](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main/model_doc/xlsr_wav2vec2.html) on [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice) using 8 GPUs in half-precision.

```bash
python -m torch.distributed.launch \
	--nproc_per_node 8 run_speech_recognition_ctc.py \
	--dataset_name="common_voice" \
	--model_name_or_path="facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53" \
	--dataset_config_name="tr" \
	--output_dir="./wav2vec2-common_voice-tr-demo-dist" \
	--overwrite_output_dir \
	--num_train_epochs="15" \
	--per_device_train_batch_size="4" \
	--learning_rate="3e-4" \
	--warmup_steps="500" \
	--evaluation_strategy="steps" \
	--text_column_name="sentence" \
	--length_column_name="input_length" \
	--save_steps="400" \
	--eval_steps="100" \
	--logging_steps="1" \
	--layerdrop="0.0" \
	--save_total_limit="3" \
	--freeze_feature_encoder \
	--gradient_checkpointing \
	--chars_to_ignore , ? . ! - \; \: \" “ % ‘ ” � \
	--fp16 \
	--group_by_length \
	--push_to_hub \
	--do_train --do_eval
```

On 8 V100 GPUs, this script should run in *ca.* 18 minutes and yield a CTC loss of **0.39** and word error rate
of **0.36**.


### Multi GPU CTC with Dataset Streaming

The following command shows how to use [Dataset Streaming mode](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/dataset_streaming.html)
to fine-tune [XLS-R](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main/model_doc/xls_r.html) 
on [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice) using 4 GPUs in half-precision.

Streaming mode imposes several constraints on training:
1. We need to construct a tokenizer beforehand and define it via `--tokenizer_name_or_path`.
2. `--num_train_epochs` has to be replaced by `--max_steps`. Similarly, all other epoch-based arguments have to be 
replaced by step-based ones.
3. Full dataset shuffling on each epoch is not possible, since we don't have the whole dataset available at once. 
However, the `--shuffle_buffer_size` argument controls how many examples we can pre-download before shuffling them.


```bash
**python -m torch.distributed.launch \
	--nproc_per_node 4 run_speech_recognition_ctc_streaming.py \
	--dataset_name="common_voice" \
	--model_name_or_path="facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m" \
	--tokenizer_name_or_path="anton-l/wav2vec2-tokenizer-turkish" \
	--dataset_config_name="tr" \
	--train_split_name="train+validation" \
	--eval_split_name="test" \
	--output_dir="wav2vec2-xls-r-common_voice-tr-ft" \
	--overwrite_output_dir \
	--max_steps="5000" \
	--per_device_train_batch_size="8" \
	--gradient_accumulation_steps="2" \
	--learning_rate="5e-4" \
	--warmup_steps="500" \
	--evaluation_strategy="steps" \
	--text_column_name="sentence" \
	--save_steps="500" \
	--eval_steps="500" \
	--logging_steps="1" \
	--layerdrop="0.0" \
	--eval_metrics wer cer \
	--save_total_limit="1" \
	--mask_time_prob="0.3" \
	--mask_time_length="10" \
	--mask_feature_prob="0.1" \
	--mask_feature_length="64" \
	--freeze_feature_encoder \
	--chars_to_ignore , ? . ! - \; \: \" “ % ‘ ” � \
	--max_duration_in_seconds="20" \
	--shuffle_buffer_size="500" \
	--fp16 \
	--push_to_hub \
	--do_train --do_eval \
	--gradient_checkpointing**
```

On 4 V100 GPUs, this script should run in *ca.* 3h 31min and yield a CTC loss of **0.35** and word error rate
of **0.29**.

### Examples CTC

The following tables present a couple of example runs on the most popular speech-recognition datasets. 
The presented performances are by no means optimal as no hyper-parameter tuning was done. Nevertheless, 
they can serve as a baseline to improve upon.


#### TIMIT CTC

- [TIMIT](https://huggingface.co/datasets/timit_asr)

| Dataset | Dataset Config | Pretrained Model | Word error rate on eval | Phoneme error rate on eval | GPU setup | Training time | Fine-tuned Model & Logs | Command to reproduce |
|-------|------------------------------|-------------|---------------|---------------|----------------------|-------------| -------------| ------- |
| [TIMIT](https://huggingface.co/datasets/timit_asr)| -  | [wav2vec2-base](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-base) | 0.21 | - | 1 GPU TITAN RTX |  32min                      | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-base-timit-fine-tuned)  | [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-base-timit-fine-tuned/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [TIMIT](https://huggingface.co/datasets/timit_asr)| -  | [wav2vec2-base](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-base) | 0.21 | - | 1 GPU TITAN RTX |  32min                      | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-base-timit-fine-tuned)  | [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-base-timit-fine-tuned/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [TIMIT](https://huggingface.co/datasets/timit_asr)| -  | [unispeech-large-1500h-cv](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/unispeech-large-1500h-cv) | 0.22 | - | 1 GPU TITAN RTX |  35min                      | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/unispeech-large-1500h-cv-timit)  | [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/unispeech-large-1500h-cv-timit/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [TIMIT](https://huggingface.co/datasets/timit_asr)| -  | [asapp/sew-mid-100k](https://huggingface.co/asapp/sew-mid-100k) | 0.30 | - | 1 GPU TITAN RTX |  28min                      | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/sew-small-100k-timit)  | [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/sew-small-100k-timit/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [TIMIT](https://huggingface.co/datasets/timit_asr)| -  | [ntu-spml/distilhubert](https://huggingface.co/ntu-spml/distilhubert) | 0.68 | - | 1 GPU TITAN RTX |  26min                      | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/distilhubert-timit)  | [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/distilhubert-timit/blob/main/run.sh) |


#### Librispeech CTC

- [Librispeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/librispeech_asr)

| Dataset | Dataset Config | Pretrained Model | Word error rate on eval | Phoneme error rate on eval | GPU setup | Training time | Fine-tuned Model & Logs | Command to reproduce |
|-------|------------------------------|-------------|---------------|---------------|----------------------|-------------| -------------| ------- |
| [Librispeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/librispeech_asr)| `"clean"` - `"train.100"` |  [microsoft/wavlm-large](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/wavlm-large) | 0.049 | - | 8 GPU V100 | 1h30min  | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wavlm-libri-clean-100h-large) | [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wavlm-libri-clean-100h-large/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [Librispeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/librispeech_asr)| `"clean"` - `"train.100"` |  [microsoft/wavlm-base-plus](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/wavlm-base-plus) | 0.068 | - | 8 GPU V100 | 1h30min  | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wavlm-libri-clean-100h-base-plus) | [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wavlm-libri-clean-100h-base-plus/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [Librispeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/librispeech_asr)| `"clean"` - `"train.100"` |  [facebook/wav2vec2-large-lv60](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-large-lv60) | 0.042 | - | 8 GPU V100 | 1h30min  | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-librispeech-clean-100h-demo-dist) | [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-librispeech-clean-100h-demo-dist/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [Librispeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/librispeech_asr)| `"clean"` - `"train.100"` |  [facebook/wav2vec2-large-lv60](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-large-lv60) | 0.042 | - | 8 GPU V100 | 1h30min  | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-librispeech-clean-100h-demo-dist) | [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-librispeech-clean-100h-demo-dist/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [Librispeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/librispeech_asr)| `"clean"` - `"train.100"` |  [facebook/hubert-large-ll60k](https://huggingface.co/facebook/hubert-large-ll60k) | 0.088 | - | 8 GPU V100 | 1h30min  | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/hubert-librispeech-clean-100h-demo-dist) | [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/hubert-librispeech-clean-100h-demo-dist/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [Librispeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/librispeech_asr)| `"clean"` - `"train.100"` |  [asapp/sew-mid-100k](https://huggingface.co/asapp/sew-mid-100k) | 0.167 | | 8 GPU V100 | 54min  | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/sew-mid-100k-librispeech-clean-100h-ft) | [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/sew-mid-100k-librispeech-clean-100h-ft/blob/main/run.sh) |


#### Common Voice CTC

- [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice)

| Dataset | Dataset Config | Pretrained Model | Word error rate on eval | Phoneme error rate on eval | GPU setup | Training time | Fine-tuned Model & Logs | Command to reproduce |
|-------|------------------------------|-------------|---------------|---------------|----------------------|-------------| -------------| ------- |
| [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mozilla-foundation/common_voice_3_0)| `"tr"`  | [facebook/wav2vec2-large-xls-r-300m](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m)  | - |  0.099   | 8 GPU V100   |  23min                 | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/xls-r-300m-tr-phoneme)      |  [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/xls-r-300m-tr-phoneme/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mozilla-foundation/common_voice_3_0)| `"it"`  | [facebook/wav2vec2-large-xls-r-300m](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m)  | - |  0.077   | 8 GPU V100   |  23min                 | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/xls-r-300m-it-phoneme)      |  [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/xls-r-300m-it-phoneme/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mozilla-foundation/common_voice_3_0)| `"sv-SE"`  | [facebook/wav2vec2-large-xls-r-300m](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m)  | - |  0.099   | 8 GPU V100   |  23min                 | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/xls-r-300m-sv-phoneme)      |  [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/xls-r-300m-sv-phoneme/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice)| `"tr"`  | [facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53)  | 0.36 |  -      | 8 GPU V100   |  18min                 | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-common_voice-tr-demo-dist)      |  [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-common_voice-tr-demo-dist/blob/main/run_dist.sh) |
| [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice)| `"tr"`  | [facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53)  | 0.31  | -    | 8 GPU V100   |  1h05                 | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-common_voice-tr-ft)      |  [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-common_voice-tr-ft/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice)| `"tr"`  | [facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53) | 0.35 | - | 1 GPU V100   |  1h20min                      | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-common_voice-tr-demo)  | [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-common_voice-tr-demo/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice)| `"tr"`  | [facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m)  | 0.31     | - | 8 GPU V100   |  1h05            | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-large-xls-r-300m-common_voice-tr-ft)      |  [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-large-xls-r-300m-common_voice-tr-ft/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice)| `"tr"`  | [facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-1b](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-1b)  | 0.21 | -  | 2 GPU Titan 24 GB RAM   |  15h10            | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-xls-r-1b-common_voice-tr-ft)      |  [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-large-xls-r-1b-common_voice-tr-ft/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice)| `"tr"` in streaming mode  | [facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m)  | 0.29     | - | 4 GPU V100   |  3h31            | [here](https://huggingface.co/anton-l/wav2vec2-xls-r-common_voice-tr-ft-stream)      |  [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/anton-l/wav2vec2-xls-r-common_voice-tr-ft-stream/blob/main/run.sh) |


#### Multilingual Librispeech CTC

- [Multilingual Librispeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/multilingual_librispeech)

| Dataset | Dataset Config | Pretrained Model | Word error rate on eval | Phoneme error rate on eval | GPU setup | Training time | Fine-tuned Model & Logs | Command to reproduce |
|-------|------------------------------|-------------|---------------|---------------|----------------------|-------------| -------------| ------- |
| [Multilingual Librispeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/multilingual_librispeech)| `"german"`  | [facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53)  | 0.13  | -     | 1 GPU Titan 24 GB RAM  |  15h04                 | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-xlsr-53-300m-mls-german-ft)      |  [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-xlsr-53-300m-mls-german-ft/blob/main/run.sh) |
| [Multilingual Librispeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/multilingual_librispeech)| `"german"`  | [facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m)  | 0.15 | -     | 1 GPU Titan 24 GB RAM  |  15h04                 | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-300m-mls-german-ft)      |  [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-300m-mls-german-ft/blob/main/run.sh) |

## Sequence to Sequence

The script [`run_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py) can be used to fine-tune any [Speech Sequence-to-Sequence Model](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/auto#transformers.AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq) for automatic speech 
recognition on one of the [official speech recognition datasets](https://huggingface.co/datasets?task_ids=task_ids:automatic-speech-recognition) or a custom dataset.

A very common use case is to leverage a pretrained speech [encoding model](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/auto#transformers.AutoModel),
*e.g.* [Wav2Vec2](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main/model_doc/wav2vec2.html), [HuBERT](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main/model_doc/hubert.html), [XLSR-Wav2Vec2](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main/model_doc/xlsr_wav2vec2.html) with a pretrained [text decoding model](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/auto#transformers.AutoModel), *e.g.* [Bart](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/bart#transformers.BartForCausalLM) to create a [SpeechEnocderDecoderModel](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/speechencoderdecoder#speech-encoder-decoder-models).
Consequently, the warm-started Speech-Encoder-Decoder model can be fine-tuned in 
this script.

As an example, let's instantiate a *Wav2Vec2-2-Bart* model with the `SpeechEnocderDecoderModel` framework:

First create an empty repo on `hf.co`:

```bash
huggingface-cli repo create wav2vec2-2-bart-base
git clone https://huggingface.co/<your-user-name>/wav2vec2-2-bart-base
cd wav2vec2-2-bart-base
```

Next, run the following script **inside** the just cloned repo:

```py
from transformers import SpeechEncoderDecoderModel, AutoFeatureExtractor, AutoTokenizer, Wav2Vec2Processor

# checkpoints to leverage
encoder_id = "facebook/wav2vec2-base"
decoder_id = "facebook/bart-base"

# load and save speech-encoder-decoder model
# set some hyper-parameters for training and evaluation
model = SpeechEncoderDecoderModel.from_encoder_decoder_pretrained(encoder_id, decoder_id, encoder_add_adapter=True, encoder_feat_proj_dropout=0.0, encoder_layerdrop=0.0, max_length=200, num_beams=5)
model.config.decoder_start_token_id = model.decoder.config.bos_token_id
model.config.pad_token_id = model.decoder.config.pad_token_id
model.config.eos_token_id = model.decoder.config.eos_token_id
model.save_pretrained("./")

# load and save processor
feature_extractor = AutoFeatureExtractor.from_pretrained(encoder_id)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(decoder_id)
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor(feature_extractor, tokenizer)
processor.save_pretrained("./")
```

Finally, we can upload all files:
```bash
git lfs install
git add . && git commit -m "upload model files" && git push
```

and link the official `run_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py` script to the folder:

```bash
ln -s $(realpath <path/to/transformers>/examples/pytorch/speech-recognition/run_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py) ./
```

Note that we have added a randomly initialized adapter to `wav2vec2-base` with 
`encoder_add_adapter=True` which further samples the output sequence of 
`wav2vec2-base` along the time dimension. The reason is that by default a single
output vector of `wav2vec2-base` has a receptive field of *ca.* 25ms (*cf.* with 
section *4.2* of the [official Wav2Vec2 paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.11477.pdf)), which represents a little less a single character. BART on the other hand 
makes use of a sentence-piece tokenizer as an input processor so that a single 
hidden vector of `bart-base` represents *ca.* 4 characters. To better align 
the output of *Wav2Vec2* and *BART*'s hidden vectors for the cross-attention 
mechanism, we further subsample *Wav2Vec2*'s output by a factor of 8 by 
adding a convolution-based adapter.

Having warm-started the speech-encoder-decoder model `<your-user-name>/wav2vec2-2-bart`, we can now fine-tune it on speech recognition.

In the script [`run_speech_recognition_seq2seq`], we load the warm-started model, 
the feature extractor, and the tokenizer, process a speech recognition dataset, 
and then make use of the [`Seq2SeqTrainer`](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.Seq2SeqTrainer).
Note that it is important to also align the decoder's vocabulary with 
the speech transcriptions of the dataset. *E.g.* the [`Librispeech`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/librispeech_asr) has only captilized letters in the transcriptions,
whereas BART was pretrained mostly on normalized text. Thus it is recommended to add
`--do_lower_case` to the fine-tuning script when using a warm-started `SpeechEncoderDecoderModel`. The model is fine-tuned on the standard cross-entropy language modeling
loss for sequence-to-sequence (just like *T5* or *BART* in natural language processing).

---
**NOTE**

If you encounter problems with data preprocessing by setting `--preprocessing_num_workers` > 1, 
you might want to set the environment variable `OMP_NUM_THREADS` to 1 as follows:

```bash
OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 python run_speech_recognition_ctc ...
```

If the environment variable is not set, the training script might freeze, *i.e.* see: https://github.com/pytorch/audio/issues/1021#issuecomment-726915239

---

### Single GPU Seq2Seq

The following command shows how to fine-tune [XLSR-Wav2Vec2](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main/model_doc/xlsr_wav2vec2.html) on [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice) using a single GPU in half-precision.

```bash
python run_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py \
 	--nproc_per_node 8 run_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py \
	--dataset_name="librispeech_asr" \
	--model_name_or_path="./" \
	--dataset_config_name="clean" \
	--train_split_name="train.100" \
	--eval_split_name="validation" \
	--output_dir="./" \
	--preprocessing_num_workers="16" \
	--length_column_name="input_length" \
	--overwrite_output_dir \
	--num_train_epochs="5" \
	--per_device_train_batch_size="8" \
	--per_device_eval_batch_size="8" \
	--gradient_accumulation_steps="8" \
	--learning_rate="3e-4" \
	--warmup_steps="400" \
	--evaluation_strategy="steps" \
	--text_column_name="text" \
	--save_steps="400" \
	--eval_steps="400" \
	--logging_steps="10" \
	--save_total_limit="1" \
	--freeze_feature_encoder \
	--gradient_checkpointing \
	--fp16 \
	--group_by_length \
	--predict_with_generate \
	--generation_max_length="40" \
	--generation_num_beams="1" \
	--do_train --do_eval \
	--do_lower_case
```

On a single V100 GPU, this script should run in *ca.* 5 hours and yield a 
cross-entropy loss of **0.405** and word error rate of **0.0728**.

### Multi GPU Seq2Seq

The following command shows how to fine-tune [XLSR-Wav2Vec2](https://huggingface.co/transformers/main/model_doc/xlsr_wav2vec2.html) on [Common Voice](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice) using 8 GPUs in half-precision.

```bash
python -m torch.distributed.launch \
 	--nproc_per_node 8 run_speech_recognition_seq2seq.py \
	--dataset_name="librispeech_asr" \
	--model_name_or_path="./" \
	--dataset_config_name="clean" \
	--train_split_name="train.100" \
	--eval_split_name="validation" \
	--output_dir="./" \
	--preprocessing_num_workers="16" \
	--length_column_name="input_length" \
	--overwrite_output_dir \
	--num_train_epochs="5" \
	--per_device_train_batch_size="8" \
	--per_device_eval_batch_size="8" \
	--gradient_accumulation_steps="1" \
	--learning_rate="3e-4" \
	--warmup_steps="400" \
	--evaluation_strategy="steps" \
	--text_column_name="text" \
	--save_steps="400" \
	--eval_steps="400" \
	--logging_steps="10" \
	--save_total_limit="1" \
	--freeze_feature_encoder \
	--gradient_checkpointing \
	--fp16 \
	--group_by_length \
	--predict_with_generate \
	--do_train --do_eval \
	--do_lower_case
```

On 8 V100 GPUs, this script should run in *ca.* 45 minutes and yield a cross-entropy loss of **0.405** and word error rate of **0.0728**

### Examples Seq2Seq

#### Librispeech Seq2Seq

- [Librispeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/librispeech_asr)

| Dataset | Dataset Config | Pretrained Model | Word error rate on eval | Phoneme error rate on eval | GPU setup | Training time | Fine-tuned Model & Logs | Command to reproduce |
|-------|------------------------------|-------------|---------------|---------------|----------------------|-------------| -------------| ------- |
| [Librispeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/librispeech_asr)| `"clean"` - `"train.100"` |  [facebook/wav2vec2-base](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-base) and [facebook/bart-base](https://huggingface.co/facebook/bart-base) | 0.0728 | - | 8 GPU V100 | 45min  | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-2-bart-base) | [create_model.py](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-2-bart-base/blob/main/create_model.py) & [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-2-bart-base/blob/main/run_librispeech.sh) |
| [Librispeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/librispeech_asr)| `"clean"` - `"train.100"` |  [facebook/wav2vec2-large-lv60](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-large-lv60) and [facebook/bart-large](https://huggingface.co/facebook/bart-large) | 0.0486 | - | 8 GPU V100 | 1h20min  | [here](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-2-bart-large) | [create_model.py](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-2-bart-large/blob/main/create_model.py) & [run.sh](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-2-bart-large/blob/main/run_librispeech.sh) |