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<h1 class="relative group"><a id="xlsr" class="header-link block pr-1.5 text-lg no-hover:hidden with-hover:absolute with-hover:p-1.5 with-hover:opacity-0 with-hover:group-hover:opacity-100 with-hover:right-full" href="#xlsr"><span><svg class="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" aria-hidden="true" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 256 256"><path d="M167.594 88.393a8.001 8.001 0 0 1 0 11.314l-67.882 67.882a8 8 0 1 1-11.314-11.315l67.882-67.881a8.003 8.003 0 0 1 11.314 0zm-28.287 84.86l-28.284 28.284a40 40 0 0 1-56.567-56.567l28.284-28.284a8 8 0 0 0-11.315-11.315l-28.284 28.284a56 56 0 0 0 79.196 79.197l28.285-28.285a8 8 0 1 0-11.315-11.314zM212.852 43.14a56.002 56.002 0 0 0-79.196 0l-28.284 28.284a8 8 0 1 0 11.314 11.314l28.284-28.284a40 40 0 0 1 56.568 56.567l-28.285 28.285a8 8 0 0 0 11.315 11.314l28.284-28.284a56.065 56.065 0 0 0 0-79.196z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg></span></a>
	<span>XLS-R
	</span></h1>

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	<span>Overview
	</span></h2>

<p>The XLS-R model was proposed in <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09296" rel="nofollow">XLS-R: Self-supervised Cross-lingual Speech Representation Learning at Scale</a> by Arun Babu, Changhan Wang, Andros Tjandra, Kushal Lakhotia, Qiantong Xu, Naman
Goyal, Kritika Singh, Patrick von Platen, Yatharth Saraf, Juan Pino, Alexei Baevski, Alexis Conneau, Michael Auli.</p>
<p>The abstract from the paper is the following:</p>
<p><em>This paper presents XLS-R, a large-scale model for cross-lingual speech representation learning based on wav2vec 2.0.
We train models with up to 2B parameters on nearly half a million hours of publicly available speech audio in 128
languages, an order of magnitude more public data than the largest known prior work. Our evaluation covers a wide range
of tasks, domains, data regimes and languages, both high and low-resource. On the CoVoST-2 speech translation
benchmark, we improve the previous state of the art by an average of 7.4 BLEU over 21 translation directions into
English. For speech recognition, XLS-R improves over the best known prior work on BABEL, MLS, CommonVoice as well as
VoxPopuli, lowering error rates by 14-34% relative on average. XLS-R also sets a new state of the art on VoxLingua107
language identification. Moreover, we show that with sufficient model size, cross-lingual pretraining can outperform
English-only pretraining when translating English speech into other languages, a setting which favors monolingual
pretraining. We hope XLS-R can help to improve speech processing tasks for many more languages of the world.</em></p>
<p>Tips:</p>
<ul><li>XLS-R is a speech model that accepts a float array corresponding to the raw waveform of the speech signal.</li>
<li>XLS-R model was trained using connectionist temporal classification (CTC) so the model output has to be decoded using
<a href="/docs/transformers/pr_19043/en/model_doc/wav2vec2#transformers.Wav2Vec2CTCTokenizer">Wav2Vec2CTCTokenizer</a>.</li></ul>
<p>Relevant checkpoints can be found under <a href="https://huggingface.co/models?other=xls_r" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/models?other=xls_r</a>.</p>
<p>XLS-R’s architecture is based on the Wav2Vec2 model, so one can refer to <a href="wav2vec2">Wav2Vec2’s documentation page</a>.</p>
<p>The original code can be found <a href="https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/master/fairseq/models/wav2vec" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p>


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