wav2vec2-japanese-mlx

MLX-converted wav2vec2 model for Japanese CTC forced alignment on Apple Silicon.

Overview

This is a conversion of jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-japanese to MLX format, enabling torch-free inference on Apple Silicon Macs.

Usage

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Model Details

• Base model: facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 fine-tuned on Japanese
• Parameters: ~315M
• Framework: MLX (Apple Silicon optimized)
• Use case: Character/word-level forced alignment for Japanese speech

License

Apache-2.0 (inherited from base model)