XEUS: multilingual speech encoder with code and checkpoints
On July 1, 2024, WavLab announced XEUS, a speech encoder trained on more than 1 million hours of audio and covering over 4,000 languages. Code, checkpoints, and data were made available.
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What happened and what to do
On July 1, 2024, WavLab announced XEUS, a self-supervised speech encoder trained on more than 1 million hours of audio and covering over 4,000 languages. According to the post, code, checkpoints, and data are being made available.
A company can evaluate the encoder on recordings representative of its languages, measure performance on relevant speech tasks, and check data-use requirements before integration. A practical response is to build an evaluation and monitoring pipeline and, if the results fit, design a deployment compatible with the organization’s infrastructure and data controls.
How the consultancy can help
Wendelmaques can diagnose the opportunity and data and infrastructure requirements, scope an evaluation, and implement pipelines for testing, monitoring, and integrating the encoder into company systems.
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