Answering my own question in case anyone stumbles on this and wants a quick solution: seems like it’s a memory issue. I cobbled together a simple if clumsy way to transcribe the split-up clips one at a time. See attached screen-grab or check out the notebooks in my repo for this project: GitHub - chuachinhon/wav2vec2_transformers: Transcribing audio files using Hugging Face's implementation of Wav2Vec2 12

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