 Wav2Vec2-XLS-R-300M-EN-15  Facebook's Wav2Vec2 XLS-R fine-tuned for **Speech Translation.**  ![model image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/patrickvonplaten/scientific_images/master/xls_r.png)  This is a [SpeechEncoderDecoderModel](https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/speechencoderdecoder.html) model.  The encoder was warm-started from the [**`facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m`**](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m) checkpoint and the decoder from the [**`facebook/mbart-large-50`**](https://huggingface.co/facebook/mbart-large-50) checkpoint. Consequently, the encoder-decoder model was fine-tuned on 15 `en` -> `{lang}` translation pairs of the [Covost2 dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/covost2).  The model can translate from spoken `en` (Engish) to the following written languages `{lang}`:  `en` -> {`de`, `tr`, `fa`, `sv-SE`, `mn`, `zh-CN`, `cy`, `ca`, `sl`, `et`, `id`, `ar`, `ta`, `lv`, `ja`}  For more information, please refer to Section *5.1.1* of the [official XLS-R paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09296).  