---
license: mit
language:
- en
tags:
- audio
- speech
- speaker-attributes
- accent-classification
- age-classification
- wavlm
- whisper
- lora
- vox-profile
library_name: pytorch
pipeline_tag: audio-classification
---

# ITTS Attribute Classifiers (accent + age)

Speaker-attribute classifiers used to score **speaker diversity / controllability** of
instruction-TTS (ITTS) systems. They reproduce the
[Vox-Profile](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14648) recipe (foundation-model encoder + LoRA
adapter + light downstream head), each attribute served as a **WavLM + Whisper ensemble**
(softmax-averaged), which is stronger than either single model.

This repo stores only the multi-GB `*.pt` weights. The model code, training and inference
scripts live in the companion GitHub repo (Vox-Profile `WavLMWrapper` / `WhisperWrapper`).

## Checkpoints

| file | backbone | task | classes | test acc | macro-F1 | UAR |
|------|----------|------|---------|---------|----------|-----|
| `accent_wavlm.pt`  | WavLM-Large      | English accent | 6 | 0.939 | 0.935 | 0.936 |
| `accent_whisper.pt`| Whisper-Large-V3 | English accent | 6 | 0.940 | 0.942 | 0.950 |
| `age_wavlm.pt`     | WavLM-Large      | speaker age    | 4 | 0.791 | 0.797 | 0.801 |
| `age_whisper.pt`   | Whisper-Large-V3 | speaker age    | 4 | 0.856 | 0.862 | 0.865 |

**Ensembles (softmax-average of the two members, on the held-out test split):**

| attribute | acc | macro-F1 | UAR |
|-----------|-----|----------|-----|
| **accent** (wavlm+whisper) | **0.963** | 0.962 | **0.965** |
| **age**    (wavlm+whisper) | **0.860** | 0.866 | **0.869** |

- **Accent labels** (6): `North America`, `English`, `South Asia`, `Germanic`, `Oceania`, `South African`
- **Age labels** (4): `child`, `young_adult`, `middle_aged`, `older`

## Architecture

Each checkpoint is a Vox-Profile wrapper (`src/model/accent/wavlm_accent.py` /
`whisper_accent.py` in the GitHub repo):

- Frozen foundation-model encoder (WavLM-Large or Whisper-Large-V3 encoder).
- **LoRA rank 16** on the upper-half FFN layers (`intermediate_dense` + `output_dense`).
- Learnable softmax layer-weighted-sum over hidden states (WavLM); Whisper wrapper uses the
  last encoder layer as shipped.
- 3× point-wise `Conv1d(→256)` head + length-aware mean pooling + `Linear(256,256)→ReLU→Linear(256,C)`.

Age and accent share the **same** wrapper and LoRA-r16 recipe; only the output class count
and the training data differ. Age is a 4-class single-task head (child / young_adult /
middle_aged / older).

## Training data

Same source mix as Vox-Profile's released models: CommonVoice + TIMIT + VoxCeleb (age-enriched)
for age; accent from the Vox-Profile English-accent sources. Audio filtered to 3–15 s,
speaker-independent train/val/test splits. LoRA fine-tune: Adam lr 5e-4, effective batch 16,
10 epochs (accent 15), best checkpoint selected on validation UAR (age) / macro-F1 (accent).

## Inference

```python
import sys, torch, torchaudio, loralib as lora
# point these at the GitHub checkout (Vox-Profile wrappers)
sys.path.append("speaker_embedding_eval/vox-profile-release/src/model/accent")
from wavlm_accent import WavLMWrapper
from whisper_accent import WhisperWrapper
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

REPO = "Snooow1029/itts-attribute-classifiers"
AGE_LABELS = ["child", "young_adult", "middle_aged", "older"]
device = "cuda"

def load(cls, fname, pretrain, n):
    ckpt = hf_hub_download(REPO, fname)
    m = cls(pretrain_model=pretrain, finetune_method="lora", lora_rank=16,
            output_class_num=n, apply_gradient_reversal=False).to(device)
    m.load_state_dict(torch.load(ckpt, map_location=device)["state_dict"])
    # IMPORTANT loralib double-merge fix: best.pt stores already-merged LoRA weights but the
    # `merged` flag is not in the state_dict. Mark layers merged so the following .eval() does
    # NOT merge a second time (W + 2*BA). Critical for Whisper (0.46 -> 0.94), +1pt for WavLM.
    for mod in m.modules():
        if isinstance(mod, lora.LoRALayer):
            mod.merged = True
    return m.eval()

wavlm   = load(WavLMWrapper,   "age_wavlm.pt",   "wavlm_large",   len(AGE_LABELS))
whisper = load(WhisperWrapper, "age_whisper.pt", "whisper_large", len(AGE_LABELS))

wav, sr = torchaudio.load("clip.wav")           # mono; resample to 16 kHz if needed
if sr != 16000:
    wav = torchaudio.functional.resample(wav, sr, 16000)
x = wav.mean(0, keepdim=True).to(device)        # [1, T]
length = torch.tensor([x.shape[-1]], device=device)

with torch.no_grad(), torch.autocast("cuda", dtype=torch.float16):
    pw = torch.softmax(wavlm(x, length=length).float(), -1)
    ph = torch.softmax(whisper(x, length=length).float(), -1)
pred = ((pw + ph) / 2).argmax(-1).item()        # ensemble
print(AGE_LABELS[pred])
```

Swap `age_*` → `accent_*` and `AGE_LABELS` → the 6 accent labels for accent inference.

## Citation

Built on Vox-Profile. If you use these classifiers, please cite:

```bibtex
@article{voxprofile2025,
  title={Vox-Profile: A Speech Foundation Model Benchmark for Characterizing Diverse Speaker and Speech Traits},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.14648},
  year={2025}
}
```