# Multilingual-PR **Repository Path**: qq2524/Multilingual-PR ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: Multilingual-PR - **Description**: No description available - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: Not specified - **Default Branch**: main - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2026-02-18 - **Last Updated**: 2026-02-18 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README # Multilingual-PR Implementation of the project ```Self-supervised pretraining for phoneme recognition, and generalization on foreign languages``` > Authors: [Apavou ClΓ©ment](https://github.com/clementapa) & [Belkada Younes](https://github.com/younesbelkada) & [Leo Tronchon](https://github.com/leot13) & [Arthur Zucker](https://github.com/ArthurZucker)   
Diagram of the models used for the experiments. N=22 and h=1024 for HuBERT Large and WavLM Large, and N=11 and h=768 for Wav2vec2 Base and WavLM Base. Made by us.
## :books: Languages for which phoneme dictionaries are available Dutch (du), Spanish (es), French (fr), Italian (it), Kyrgyz (ky), Russian (ru), Sweedish (sv), Turkish (tr), Tatar (tt) and Mandarin (zh). From https://github.com/facebookresearch/CPC_audio. ## :star2: Usage Please refer to our [example notebook](https://github.com/ASR-project/Multilingual-PR/blob/main/train_notebook.ipynb) if you want to train or test a model. To understand the command line arguments that you can use, run: ``` Hparams ['parameters.hparams']: Hyperparameters of for the run --wandb_entity str wandb (default: asr-project) --debug bool (default: False) --test bool test code before running, if testing, no checkpoints are written (default: True) --wandb_project str (default: test-asr) --root_dir str root_dir (default: /home/arthur/Work/MVA-S2/Speech/Multilingual-PR) --seed_everything [int] basic params (default: None) --gpu int number or gpu (default: 1) --hparams.max_epochs int maximum number of epochs (default: 100) --weights_path str (default: /home/arthur/Work/MVA-S2/Speech/Multilingual-PR/weights) --tune_lr bool modes (default: False) --dev_run bool (default: False) --train bool (default: True) --best_model str (default: ) --log_freq_audio int (default: 10) --log_nb_audio int (default: 2) --val_check_interval float trainer params (default: 1.0) --limit_train_batches float 1.0 (default: 1.0) --limit_val_batches float 1.0 (default: 1.0) --enable_progress_bar bool (default: True) --best_model_run str testing params (default: WavLM_sv) --early_stopping bool Early Stopping (default: True) --early_stopping_params typing.Dict[str, typing.Any] (default: {'monitor': 'val/per', 'patience': 10, 'mode': 'min', 'verbose': True}) DatasetParams ['parameters.data_param']: Dataset Parameters ! The batch_size and number of crops should be defined here --dataset_name str Hugging Face datasets parameters (default: common_voice) --use_auth_token bool True if use mozilla-foundation datasets (default: False) --subset str (default: sv-SE) --download_mode str chosen language (see https://huggingface.co/datasets/common_voice) (default: reuse_dataset_if_exists) --cache_dir str (default: /home/arthur/Work/MVA-S2/Speech/Multilingual-PR/assets) --language str to create vocabulary of phonemes (default: sv) --root_path_annotation str (default: /home/arthur/Work/MVA-S2/Speech/Multilingual-PR/assets/common_voices_splits) --phoible_csv_path str (default: /home/arthur/Work/MVA-S2/Speech/Multilingual-PR/assets) --num_workers int Dataloader parameters (default: 20) --batch_size int (default: 2) --max_input_length_in_sec float Dataset processing parameters (default: 5) --num_proc int (default: 4) --create_dataset bool (default: False) NetworkParams ['parameters.network_param']: NetworkParams(network_name: str = 'WavLM', pretrained_name: Union[str, NoneType] = '', freeze: bool = True, freeze_transformer: bool = True, eos_token: str = '', bos_token: str = '
Schema of Wav2vec2, HuBERT and WavLM.
For our experiments, we used models hosted on Hugging Face library, that are pre-trained on 960 hours of **English** audio data from Librispeech dataset on 16kHz sampled speech audio. The following pre-trained models were used: - Wav2vec2 *Base*: [facebook/wav2vec2-base-960h](https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-base-960h) - WavLM *Base*: [microsoft/wavlm-base](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/wavlm-base) - WavLM *Large*: [microsoft/wavlm-large](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/wavlm-large) - HuBERT *Large*: [facebook/hubert-large-ls960-ft](https://huggingface.co/facebook/hubert-large-ls960-ft) ## :family: Language Family
Genetic proximity between languages studied and english computed [here](http://www.elinguistics.net/Compare_Languages.aspx). [1, 30]: Highly related languages, [30, 50]: Related languages, [50, 70]: Remotely related languages, [70, 78]: Very remotely related languages, [78, 100]: No recognizable relationship.
**English** is a part of the *West Germanic* family.\ Source: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/docs/languages.md and http://www.elinguistics.net/Compare_Languages.aspx ## :chart_with_upwards_trend: Main results dataset: Common Voice Corpus 6.1 : https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/fr/datasets Pretrained English models to other languages ### π Fine-tuning | Language | Training data (in hours) | Model| PER validation | PER test | Runs| |-|-|-|-|-|-| | Italian :it: | 62\.34| Wav2Vec2 *Base* | 19\.05| 17\.95 | [](Table of experiments when models are **fine tuned**. Here, we compare 3 different pretrained models. The models were fine tuned on the phoneme recognition task with different languages and a varying amount of training data.
### π§ Frozen Features | Language | Training data (in hours) | Model | PER validation | PER test | Runs | |-|-|-|-|-|-| | Italian :it: | 62\.34 | Wav2Vec2 *Base* | 38\.94 | 36\.84 | [](Table of experiments using **frozen features**. Here, we compare 4 different pretrained models. The objective was to train a linear layer, using pretrained models' frozen features, on the phoneme recognition task with different languages and a varying amount of training data.
### β Training data | Training set | Training data | Model | PER validation | PER test | Runs | |-|-|-|-|-|-| | 5% | \~ 10 min | Wav2Vec2 *Base* | 55\.35 | 50\.91 | [](Variation in the amount of training data with frozen features of models pre-trained with the 3 different methods. Language: Swedish πΈπͺ.
PER on the test and validation sets vs Training data for the Swedish language with frozen features.
## :pushpin: Project structure ``` βββ agents | βββ BaseTrainer.py | βββ assets # database and vocab phonemes are put here | βββ config | βββ hparams.py # configuration file | βββ Datasets | | | βββ datamodule.py #Β datamodules PyTorch lightning for CommonVoice dataset | βββ models | βββ BaseModule.py # lightning module | βββ models.py # Wav2vec2 WavLM and Hubert using Hugging Face library | βββ utils # utils functions | βββ agent_utils.py | βββ callbacks.py | βββ dataset_utils.py | βββ logger.py | βββ metrics.py | βββ per.py # torch metrics implementation of the phoneme error rate | βββ hparams.py # configuration file | βββ main.py # main script to launch for training of inference | βββ README.md ``` ## β‘ Powered by