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wav2vec 2.0 Large 960h LV-60 self-training is an open-weights speech-to-text model from Meta, released October 2020. Its published size is 0.32B parameters. Licence: apache-2.0.

Catalogue identity notes

Exact checkpoint facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self (CTC fine-tuned on LibriSpeech 960h). Params: fp32 pytorch_model.bin 1,262,055,246 bytes / 4; released: arXiv 2010.11430v1 month (self-training paper).

15.8±3.3#150 of 162 speech-to-text modelsfrom 6 benchmark results across 4 sources

Score within the Open ASR English short-form WER (March 2026) comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The speech-to-text models ranked either side of wav2vec 2.0 Large 960h LV-60 self-training, out of 176 with a score, then more from Meta.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
162MMS-1B-all Meta25±3local~5.1GB2023-05
163Whisper base OpenAI25±3local~0.7GB2022-09
164wav2vec 2.0 Large 960h LV-60 self-training Meta16±3local~2GB2020-10
165HuBERT X-Large (LibriSpeech 960h ft) Meta16±4local~5.1GB2021-06
166HuBERT Large (LibriSpeech 960h ft) Meta15±4local~2GB2021-06
more from Meta
1Muse Voice Transcribe 1.0 Meta71±3api $0.0030/audio min2026-09
58Omnilingual ASR LLM 7B Meta58±2local~19GB2025-11
59Omnilingual ASR LLM 7B v2 Meta58±3local~19GB2025-12

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$ what it's good at

other tests5 not in a task · 96% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Open ASR English short-form WER (March 2026)21.3% ✎▁▁▁▃··▁▁▂██▆ beats 11/86avg 8.2%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 39%blunt
LibriSpeech test-other WER lab3.9% ✎▂·▂·▂······█ beats 5/6avg 0.2%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 34%typical
LibriSpeech test-clean WER +11.8% ✎▂··▂·▃▂█▂▃▃▃ beats 15/16avg 0.4%▇▇▇▇▇▇ 14%blunt · several runs
AfriSpeech-200 test (108 African accents) · WER61.1% ✎███····█████ beats 2/7avg 30%▇▇ 6.2%blunt
TED-LIUM test WER (short-form)13.5% ✎▂····▂▂▂█▃▃▂ beats 8/13avg 9.2%▇ 2.8%blunt

$ where to run it

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~2.04 GB · from huggingface.co/facebook
    uv run --with transformers --with torch python -c "from transformers import pipeline; print(pipeline('automatic-speech-recognition', model='facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self', chunk_length_s=30)('audio.wav')['text'])"

Weights and documentation: huggingface.co/facebook ↗

$ how the score was worked out · Meta (facebook org) Hugging F… 46%, Open ASR Leaderboard 39%, AfriSpeech-200 (arXiv:2310.00… 6% and 1 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

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