PreTrain Wav2Vec2 in Persian
There is currently only a multilingually pretrained model for Persian Wav2Vec2. Let’s make a Wav2Vec2 only pretrained on Persian.
Model
A randomly initialized Wav2Vec2 model
Datasets
One can make use of Common Voice the dataset is also available through the datasets library here: common_voice · Datasets at Hugging Face.
Available training scripts
FlaxWav2Vec2 will be merged soon: [Flax] Add wav2vec2 by Patrickvonplaten · Pull Request #12271 · huggingface/transformers · GitHub and a pretraining script should be relatively easy to be merged.
(Optional) Desired project outcome
The best Persian ASR model.
(Optional) Challenges
It might make sense to use more data than just the common voice.