speechbrainasr-crdnn-rnnlm-librispeech
SpeechBrainASR¶
Uses the audited SpeechBrain CRDNN/RNNLM decoder with an explicit beam size.
Parameter metadata: Not reported: the audited metadata available for the registered default does not provide an exact parameter total.
Usage¶
Complete the VoiceHub installation once, then run this repository-authored example. Model pages intentionally contain no package-install command.
This example is maintained against VoiceHub's public API; it is not copied from an upstream demo or package README.
Model-specific path: Uses the audited SpeechBrain CRDNN/RNNLM decoder with an explicit beam size.
Inputs and controls: The released LibriSpeech graph is English-only and does not expose calibrated timestamps.
from pathlib import Path
from voicehub import AutoModelForSpeechRecognition
AUDIO_FILE = Path("speech.wav")
if not AUDIO_FILE.is_file():
raise FileNotFoundError(AUDIO_FILE)
model = AutoModelForSpeechRecognition.from_pretrained(
'speechbrain/asr-crdnn-rnnlm-librispeech',
model_type='asr_speechbrain',
device="cuda",
lazy_load=True,
)
output = model.transcribe(
AUDIO_FILE,
language="en",
num_beams=8,
)
print(output.text)
for segment in output.segments:
print(segment.start, segment.end, segment.text, segment.confidence)
Use authorized recordings. Verify hardware needs and pin a revision in production.
Overview¶
asr_speechbrain is a VoiceHub automatic speech recognition
integration. This page is generated from its registry contract. Open the asr_speechbrain Colab notebook.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Task | Automatic speech recognition |
| Architecture | speechbrain-crdnn-asr |
| Runtime | VoiceHub-native |
| Languages | en |
| Capabilities | automatic-speech-recognition, english, beam-search, safetensors, fine-tuning, voicehub-native, crdnn, ctc-seq2seq, rnnlm-shallow-fusion |
| Reusable components | — |
| Normalized output | ASROutput |
Language support¶
Supported language abbreviations
en
Paper and GitHub¶
- Paper: SpeechBrain: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkit
- Upstream GitHub: SpeechBrain
- VoiceHub source: VoiceHub model implementation
Configuration¶
Load configuration without constructing the model:
from voicehub import AutoConfig
config = AutoConfig.for_model('asr_speechbrain')
print(config.model_type)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Canonical model type | asr_speechbrain |
| Configuration class | SpeechBrainASRConfig |
| Architecture class | SpeechBrainASRForSpeechRecognition |
Processing¶
Create the registered processor without allocating model weights:
from voicehub import AutoProcessor
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
'speechbrain/asr-crdnn-rnnlm-librispeech',
model_type='asr_speechbrain',
)
print(type(processor).__name__)
Inference¶
The Usage example returns ASROutput through AutoModelForSpeechRecognition.
Input and output contract¶
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Readiness | integrated-raw |
| Data architecture | hybrid-ctc-attention |
| Sample rate | 16,000 Hz |
| Contract getter | get_asr_dataset_spec('asr_speechbrain') |
| Variant | Required fields | One of | Boundary | Other rules |
|---|---|---|---|---|
raw-audio |
— | audio / audio_path; text / transcription / transcript | Source | at most one: audio / audio_path; text / transcription / transcript |
speechbrain-model-ready |
waveforms, waveform_lengths, tokens_bos, tokens_eos, token_lengths, ctc_tokens, ctc_token_lengths |
— | Prepared | — |
SpeechBrain CRDNN joint CTC/attention fine-tuning records. See the data workflow.
Training and optimization¶
Use available_optimization_passes() to discover reversible public passes.
Unsupported runtime or hardware fails closed before mutation.
Training contract¶
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Support | native |
| Family | speech-sequence-to-sequence |
| Recipe | single-phase |
| Default phase | speech_recognition |
| Training checkpoint | speechbrain/asr-crdnn-rnnlm-librispeech |
| Native training graph | yes |
| Phase | Kind | Components | Required inputs | Loss keys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
speech_recognition |
objective | model |
waveforms, waveform_lengths, tokens_bos, tokens_eos, token_lengths, ctc_tokens, ctc_token_lengths |
loss, seq2seq_loss, ctc_loss |
The integration accepts its declared source or prepared contract directly. Call model.validate_training_support() first, then follow the
training workflow.
Checkpoints, provenance, license, and limitations¶
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Default checkpoint | speechbrain/asr-crdnn-rnnlm-librispeech |
| Hugging Face ID | speechbrain/asr-crdnn-rnnlm-librispeechRepository availability verified through the Hugging Face model API on 2026-08-11; pin a revision before production use. |
| Checkpoint status | Registry default; pin an immutable revision for production and reproducible evidence |
| Optional dependency extra | Core package |
| Hardware and runtime | Usage selects cuda; verify checkpoint-specific requirements |
| Real-checkpoint evidence | Release evidence; a registry default alone is not execution evidence |
| Implementation | voicehub.models.asr_native.speechbrain.SpeechBrainASRForSpeechRecognition |
| Configuration | voicehub.models.asr_native.configuration.SpeechBrainASRConfig |
| Source provenance | voicehub/architectures/speechbrain_asr/SOURCE.json |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
The pinned CRDNN, RNNLM, tokenizer, and source implementation are Apache-2.0. The original pickle files cross a strict one-time conversion boundary; steady-state artifacts are Safetensors. Commercial use: allowed by the registered terms.
Confirm the checkpoint revision, access terms, provenance, and license.
Limitations¶
- No integration-specific checkpoint limitation is registered. Verify the selected checkpoint revision and its documented runtime requirements.
- Validate memory, precision, and optional dependencies on the target system.
- Public optimizations fail closed when the runtime or hardware cannot satisfy their validation contract; an unavailable pass is not reported as applied.
- Contract tests do not replace the linked released-checkpoint evidence.
Public API¶
Use the stable configuration, processor, and task-model facades below.
Configuration
SpeechBrainASRConfig¶
Parameters¶
**config_kwargs— Configuration fields validated by SpeechBrainASRConfig.
Model
SpeechBrainASRForSpeechRecognition¶
Parameters¶
pretrained_model_name_or_path— Hub ID or compatible local directory.model_type— Canonical model type; use 'asr_speechbrain'.config— Optional preloaded SpeechBrainASRConfig instance.**model_kwargs— Model-specific loading arguments.
from voicehub import get_model_spec
spec = get_model_spec('asr_speechbrain')
print(spec.display_name, spec.task.value)
| Purpose | Public object |
|---|---|
| Discover | get_model_spec('asr_speechbrain') |
| Load and run | AutoModelForSpeechRecognition |
| Configure | SpeechBrainASRConfig |
| Process | AutoProcessor |
| Model implementation | SpeechBrainASRForSpeechRecognition |
| Normalized output | ASROutput |
| Training contract | get_training_spec('asr_speechbrain') |
| Optimization lifecycle | available_optimization_passes, apply_optimization_plan, optimization_manifest, restore_optimization_plan |
See all model guides, inference, and the training matrix.