Fine-tune XLS-R Wav2Vec2 for low-resource ASR using Hugging Face Transformers

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The content describes fine-tuning the XLS-R (Wav2Vec2-based) model for multilingual ASR using 🤗 Transformers, targeting low-resource languages like Turkish with a CTC objective and a small linear classifier on top of a pre-trained backbone. It outlines data preparation with the Common Voice dataset, integration of tokenizers and feature extractors (Wav2Vec2CTCTokenizer, Wav2Vec2FeatureExtractor), and publishing checkpoints to the Hugging Face Hub, highlighting reproducibility through versioned models and Git LFS. This capability expands practical multilingual ASR deployment, enabling rapid experimentation, language-specific adaptations, and easier sharing of trained checkpoints for reuse across teams.