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# Process audio data

## Process audio data

This guide shows specific methods for processing audio datasets. Learn how to:

* Resample the sampling rate.
* Use [map()](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/v2.14.5/en/package_reference/main_classes#datasets.Dataset.map) with audio datasets.

For a guide on how to process any type of dataset, take a look at the [general process guide](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/process).

### Cast

The [cast\_column()](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/v2.14.5/en/package_reference/main_classes#datasets.Dataset.cast_column) function is used to cast a column to another feature to be decoded. When you use this function with the [Audio](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/v2.14.5/en/package_reference/main_classes#datasets.Audio) feature, you can resample the sampling rate:

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```
>>> from datasets import load_dataset, Audio

>>> dataset = load_dataset("PolyAI/minds14", "en-US", split="train")
>>> dataset = dataset.cast_column("audio", Audio(sampling_rate=16000))
```

Audio files are decoded and resampled on-the-fly, so the next time you access an example, the audio file is resampled to 16kHz:

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```
>>> dataset[0]["audio"]
{'array': array([ 2.3443763e-05,  2.1729663e-04,  2.2145823e-04, ...,
         3.8356509e-05, -7.3497440e-06, -2.1754686e-05], dtype=float32),
 'path': '/root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/f14948e0e84be638dd7943ac36518a4cf3324e8b7aa331c5ab11541518e9368c/en-US~JOINT_ACCOUNT/602ba55abb1e6d0fbce92065.wav',
 'sampling_rate': 16000}
```

![](https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/datasets/resample.gif)

### Map

The [map()](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/v2.14.5/en/package_reference/main_classes#datasets.Dataset.map) function helps preprocess your entire dataset at once. Depending on the type of model you’re working with, you’ll need to either load a [feature extractor](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/auto#transformers.AutoFeatureExtractor) or a [processor](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/auto#transformers.AutoProcessor).

* For pretrained speech recognition models, load a feature extractor and tokenizer and combine them in a `processor`:

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  ```
  >>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoFeatureExtractor, AutoProcessor

  >>> model_checkpoint = "facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53"
  # after defining a vocab.json file you can instantiate a tokenizer object:
  >>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer("./vocab.json", unk_token="[UNK]", pad_token="[PAD]", word_delimiter_token="|")
  >>> feature_extractor = AutoFeatureExtractor.from_pretrained(model_checkpoint)
  >>> processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(feature_extractor=feature_extractor, tokenizer=tokenizer)
  ```
* For fine-tuned speech recognition models, you only need to load a `processor`:

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  ```
  >>> from transformers import AutoProcessor

  >>> processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("facebook/wav2vec2-base-960h")
  ```

When you use [map()](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/v2.14.5/en/package_reference/main_classes#datasets.Dataset.map) with your preprocessing function, include the `audio` column to ensure you’re actually resampling the audio data:

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```
>>> def prepare_dataset(batch):
...     audio = batch["audio"]
...     batch["input_values"] = processor(audio["array"], sampling_rate=audio["sampling_rate"]).input_values[0]
...     batch["input_length"] = len(batch["input_values"])
...     with processor.as_target_processor():
...         batch["labels"] = processor(batch["sentence"]).input_ids
...     return batch
>>> dataset = dataset.map(prepare_dataset, remove_columns=dataset.column_names)
```


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