readme: ---
  language: 
  - bn
  language_bcp47:
  - bn-BD
  tags:
  - automatic-speech-recognition
  - bn
  - common_voice_9_0
  - openslr_SLR53
  datasets:
  - common_voice_bn
  - openSLR53
  - multilingual_librispeech
  metrics:
  - wer
  - cer
  model-index:
  - name: shahruk10/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-bengali-commonvoice
    results:
    - task:
        type: automatic-speech-recognition
        name: Speech Recognition
      dataset:
        type: common_voice_9_0
        name: Common Voice (Bengali)
        args: common_voice_bn
      metrics:
      - type: wer
        value: 0.01793038418929547
        name: Validation WER with 5-gram LM
      - type: cer
        value: 0.08078964599673999
        name: Validation CER with 5-gram LM
  license: apache-2.0
  ---
  
  # Wav2Vec2-XLS-R-300M-Bengali-CommonVoice
  
  - This model is a fine-tuned version of [arijitx/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-bengali](https://huggingface.co/arijitx/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-bengali) on the the Common Voice 9.0 Bengali dataset. In total, the model was trained on ~300 hours of Bengali (Bangladesh accent) 16 kHz audio data.
  
  - The training and and validation partitions used were provided by the organizers of the [BUET CSE Fest 2022 DL Sprint Competition on Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/dlsprint).
  
  - The model placed first on both the public and private leader boards.
  
  - A 5-gram language model generated from the training split was used with model.
  
  ## Metrics
  
  - The model was evaluated using Word Error Rate (WER) and Character Error Rate (CER) for the validation set. At the time, the test set labels were not made available by the organizers of the Kaggle competition which provided the data splits for training.
   
  
  |  Model  | Split |  CER  |  WER |
  |:-------:|:-----:|:-----:|:------:|
  | With 5-gram LM | Validation | 0.08079 | 0.017939 |
  
  
  ## Training
  
  - The training notebook for this model can be found on Kaggle [here](https://www.kaggle.com/code/shahruk10/training-notebook-wav2vec2).
  
  - The inference notebook for this model can be found on Kaggle [here](https://www.kaggle.com/code/shahruk10/inference-notebook-wav2vec2).
  
  - The model was first trained for 15 epochs on the training split (with on-the-fly augmentation). Dropouts were enabled and a cosine decay learning rate schedule starting from 3e-5 was used.
  
  - The best iteration from the first run was further fine-tuned for 5 epochs at constant learning rate of 1e-7 with dropouts disabled.
  