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What is wav2vec? - Hugging Face Tutorial
From the course: AI Workshop: Building AI Applications with Hugging Face Models
What is wav2vec?
- [Instructor] So, what is wav2vec? wav2vec is a revolutionary approach to speech recognition and audio processing, developed initially by Facebook, and it's now maintained by Meta. wav2vec models are designed to learn powerful representations of speech audio from unlabeled data. The key feature of wav2vec lies in the self-supervised learning approach. It can extract meaningful features from raw audio waveforms without requiring transcribed text, which is often expensive and time-consuming to obtain. This makes wav2vec particularly useful for low-resource languages or specialized domains where labeled data is really scarce. wav2vec models have shown impressive performance in various speech recognition tasks, often matching or surpassing the traditional supervised approaches. They've been successfully applied to tasks like speech recognition, speaker identification, and even music processing, showcasing their versatility in handling all your data. This model will form the backbone of…
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