# Transcription and translation of videos using fine-tuned XLSR Wav2Vec2 on custom dataset and mBART

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00212 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.00212/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
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- First posted on arXiv 1 Mar 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 8 of 8)

- [Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.06670/) (2019)
- [Multilingual Denoising Pre-training for Neural Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.08210/) (2020)
- [XLS-R: Self-supervised Cross-lingual Speech Representation Learning at Scale](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.09296/) (2021)
- [A disciplined approach to neural network hyper-parameters: Part 1 -- learning rate, batch size, momentum, and weight decay](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.09820/) (2018)
- [End-to-end speaker segmentation for overlap-aware resegmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.04045/) (2021)
- [Exploring Wav2vec 2.0 fine-tuning for improved speech emotion recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.06309/) (2021)
- [Applying Wav2vec2.0 to Speech Recognition in Various Low-resource Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.12121/) (2020)
- [Applying wav2vec2 for Speech Recognition on Bengali Common Voices Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.06581/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This research addresses the challenge of training an ASR model for personalized voices with minimal data. Utilizing just 14 minutes of custom audio from a YouTube video, we employ Retrieval-Based Voice Conversion (RVC) to create a custom Common Voice 16.0 corpus. Subsequently, a Cross-lingual Self-supervised Representations (XLSR) Wav2Vec2 model is fine-tuned on this dataset. The developed web-based GUI efficiently transcribes and translates input Hindi videos. By integrating XLSR Wav2Vec2 and mBART, the system aligns the translated text with the video timeline, delivering an accessible solution for multilingual video content transcription and translation for personalized voice.