ESPnet-EZ: Python-only ESPnet for Easy Fine-tuning and Integration
<|reference_start|>ESPnet-EZ: Python-only ESPnet for Easy Fine-tuning and Integration: We introduce ESPnet-EZ, an extension of the open-source speech processing toolkit ESPnet, aimed at quick and easy development of speech models. ESPnet-EZ focuses on two major aspects: (i) easy fine-tuning and inference of existing ESPnet models on various tasks and (ii) easy integration with popular deep neural network frameworks such as PyTorch-Lightning, Hugging Face transformers and datasets, and Lhotse. By replacing ESPnet design choices inherited from Kaldi with a Python-only, Bash-free interface, we dramatically reduce the effort required to build, debug, and use a new model. For example, to fine-tune a speech foundation model, ESPnet-EZ, compared to ESPnet, reduces the number of newly written code by 2.7x and the amount of dependent code by 6.7x while dramatically reducing the Bash script dependencies. The codebase of ESPnet-EZ is publicly available.<|reference_end|>
@article{someki2024espnet-ez:,
    title={ESPnet-EZ: Python-only ESPnet for Easy Fine-tuning and Integration},
    author={Masao Someki, Kwanghee Choi, Siddhant Arora, William Chen, Samuele
  Cornell, Jionghao Han, Yifan Peng, Jiatong Shi, Vaibhav Srivastav, Shinji
  Watanabe},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.09506},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.09506},
    primaryClass={cs.SD cs.AI eess.AS}
}