TorchAudio 2.1: Advancing speech recognition, self-supervised learning, and audio processing components for PyTorch
Abstract
TorchAudio is an open-source audio and speech processing library built for PyTorch. It aims to accelerate the research and development of audio and speech technologies by providing well-designed, easy-to-use, and performant PyTorch components. Its contributors routinely engage with users to understand their needs and fulfill them by developing impactful features. Here, we survey TorchAudio's development principles and contents and highlight key features we include in its latest version (2.1): self-supervised learning pre-trained pipelines and training recipes, high-performance CTC decoders, speech recognition models and training recipes, advanced media I/O capabilities, and tools for performing forced alignment, multi-channel speech enhancement, and reference-less speech assessment. For a selection of these features, through empirical studies, we demonstrate their efficacy and show that they achieve competitive or state-of-the-art performance.
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@article{arxiv.2310.17864,
title = {TorchAudio 2.1: Advancing speech recognition, self-supervised learning, and audio processing components for PyTorch},
author = {Jeff Hwang and Moto Hira and Caroline Chen and Xiaohui Zhang and Zhaoheng Ni and Guangzhi Sun and Pingchuan Ma and Ruizhe Huang and Vineel Pratap and Yuekai Zhang and Anurag Kumar and Chin-Yun Yu and Chuang Zhu and Chunxi Liu and Jacob Kahn and Mirco Ravanelli and Peng Sun and Shinji Watanabe and Yangyang Shi and Yumeng Tao and Robin Scheibler and Samuele Cornell and Sean Kim and Stavros Petridis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.17864},
year = {2023}
}