--- title: "Japanese Voice Recognition" kind: "Kit" category: "Productivity" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/a21e2e1a-e8ea-4b72-803a-f077a73dc9b3" updated: "2026-11-12" --- # Japanese Voice Recognition > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Turns Japanese speech into text with a wav2vec2 model whose name points to hiragana output. For people who want to try Japanese speech recognition in a browser. Japanese Voice Recognition is a kit in the Productivity category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-12. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself. Made by Detomo ## About ### What it is This Space is a Japanese speech recognition demo from Detomo. It names one model, a wav2vec2 large XLSR checkpoint from vumichien, whose name points to hiragana output. The README holds only the standard Space settings text, so the demo itself is described by its files and model name. ### Who it suits It suits people who want to see Japanese speech turned into text, and learners or developers who want a small example to build from. | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Education | Japanese learners | Check how spoken Japanese is written out | Speak a sentence and read the text that comes back | | Research | Speech researchers | Try a Japanese recognition model | Run a sample clip and review the result | | Development | Developers | Test a model before building an app around it | Run a clip from the samples folder | | Media | Editors | Draft a transcript from Japanese audio | Get a rough text to correct by hand | You can skip it if you need a language other than Japanese or a recognizer with published accuracy figures. ### Where to use it - A web browser, on the Space's page at Hugging Face - Your own computer, on Windows, macOS or Linux | Use case | Who | What they get back | | --- | --- | --- | | Transcribe a clip | Learners and researchers | Japanese text from speech | | Try the samples | Newcomers | A quick look at output from the sample files | | Test a model | Developers | A feel for how the hiragana model behaves | ### How to set it up - Nothing to install if you use the Space online - Python, if you run a copy on your own computer - The Python packages in requirements.txt - The system packages in packages.txt, which Hugging Face installs with apt-get 1. Open the Space's page on Hugging Face to use it online. 2. To run a copy, install huggingface\_hub and download the Space into a folder. 3. Move into that folder and install the pinned Gradio version, then the listed packages. 4. Start the app with Python. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download Detomo/voice-japanese --repo-type space --local-dir voice-japanese cd voice-japanese pip install gradio==3.8 pip install -r requirements.txt python app.py ``` ### How to use it Open the Space and give it Japanese speech. The README gives no steps, so follow the page's own controls. The repository has a samples folder to try. On your own copy, start the app with this command and open the local page Gradio prints. ```sh python app.py ``` ### Example Open the Space online and run it on a clip from the samples folder. You get back Japanese text, which the model name suggests is written in hiragana. ### For newcomers and experts If you are new, try a sample clip first and compare the text with what you hear. Hiragana is one of the Japanese writing systems, so the result may read differently from usual written Japanese. If you know the field, the Space wraps a single wav2vec2 large XLSR model fine-tuned for Japanese hiragana in an older Gradio 3.8 app. The README gives no training data, error rates or limits, so test on your own audio before relying on it. You give the app Japanese audio → The wav2vec2 XLSR model reads the sound → The app returns text in hiragana ### Good to know - License: apache-2 - Cost to run: none named. The online Space runs on Hugging Face. - Data it reaches: the audio you give it, and the model it names on Hugging Face. ## README ````markdown # Japanese Voice Recognition Turns Japanese speech into text with a wav2vec2 model whose name points to hiragana output. For people who want to try Japanese speech recognition in a browser. Made by Detomo on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its Space page and README; the app's own files and license are on Hugging Face. ## About What it is: This Space is a Japanese speech recognition demo from Detomo. It names one model, a wav2vec2 large XLSR checkpoint from vumichien, whose name points to hiragana output. The README holds only the standard Space settings text, so the demo itself is described by its files and model name. Who it suits: It suits people who want to see Japanese speech turned into text, and learners or developers who want a small example to build from. ```table Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example Education | Japanese learners | Check how spoken Japanese is written out | Speak a sentence and read the text that comes back Research | Speech researchers | Try a Japanese recognition model | Run a sample clip and review the result Development | Developers | Test a model before building an app around it | Run a clip from the samples folder Media | Editors | Draft a transcript from Japanese audio | Get a rough text to correct by hand ``` You can skip it if you need a language other than Japanese or a recognizer with published accuracy figures. Where to use it: - A web browser, on the Space's page at Hugging Face - Your own computer, on Windows, macOS or Linux ```table Use case | Who | What they get back Transcribe a clip | Learners and researchers | Japanese text from speech Try the samples | Newcomers | A quick look at output from the sample files Test a model | Developers | A feel for how the hiragana model behaves ``` How to set it up: - Nothing to install if you use the Space online - Python, if you run a copy on your own computer - The Python packages in requirements.txt - The system packages in packages.txt, which Hugging Face installs with apt-get 1. Open the Space's page on Hugging Face to use it online. 2. To run a copy, install huggingface_hub and download the Space into a folder. 3. Move into that folder and install the pinned Gradio version, then the listed packages. 4. Start the app with Python. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download Detomo/voice-japanese --repo-type space --local-dir voice-japanese cd voice-japanese pip install gradio==3.8 pip install -r requirements.txt python app.py ``` How to use it: Open the Space and give it Japanese speech. The README gives no steps, so follow the page's own controls. The repository has a samples folder to try. On your own copy, start the app with this command and open the local page Gradio prints. ```sh python app.py ``` Example: Open the Space online and run it on a clip from the samples folder. You get back Japanese text, which the model name suggests is written in hiragana. For newcomers and experts: If you are new, try a sample clip first and compare the text with what you hear. Hiragana is one of the Japanese writing systems, so the result may read differently from usual written Japanese. If you know the field, the Space wraps a single wav2vec2 large XLSR model fine-tuned for Japanese hiragana in an older Gradio 3.8 app. The README gives no training data, error rates or limits, so test on your own audio before relying on it. ```flow You give the app Japanese audio The wav2vec2 XLSR model reads the sound The app returns text in hiragana ``` Good to know: - License: apache-2 - Cost to run: none named. The online Space runs on Hugging Face. - Data it reaches: the audio you give it, and the model it names on Hugging Face. ## On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026 - Likes: 4 - Built with: gradio - License: apache-2.0 ## Links - Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Detomo/voice-japanese - Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Detomo/voice-japanese/tree/main ## Try it Open the Space in your browser, or copy it to your own Hugging Face account from its page. Nothing in this kit runs by itself. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 4 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 4 KB ``` ## Source [Detomo/voice-japanese on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces/Detomo/voice-japanese) ## Compare with similar Listed Hugging Face Spaces in the same category that share the most tags with this one. | Product | Likes | Built with | License | Last change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Japanese Voice Recognition (this page) | 4 | gradio | apache-2.0 | 2022-12-20 | | [MusicGen](https://mindket.com/p/07af2531-69de-4005-a4f6-8c16dd10048d) | 5,116 | gradio | cc-by-nc-4.0 | 2026-05-27 | | [Kokoro TTS](https://mindket.com/p/aa996ded-5768-48f4-b403-33520c1b1bdf) | 3,556 | gradio | apache-2.0 | 2025-04-09 | | [Background Removal](https://mindket.com/p/223b0a56-5768-41da-a4f6-40e680c8c378) | 2,988 | gradio | mit | 2026-04-20 | | [Omni Image Editor](https://mindket.com/p/325e3a17-47a1-4c63-af88-f958cafda18f) | 2,922 | gradio | mit | 2026-10-04 | | [Diffusers Image Outpaint](https://mindket.com/p/17629f6c-cc47-4be0-bc83-ff22dfa7389a) | 2,565 | gradio | apache-2.0 | 2026-05-13 | Numbers as Mindket last read them, on 2026-11-12. ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions. - Last change on Hugging Face: 2022-12-20 - First published: 2022-03-02 - Checked on Hugging Face: 2026-11-12 - Something wrong? Tell us: https://mindket.com/takedown#ask ## Get it - [Open Detomo/voice-japanese on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces/Detomo/voice-japanese) - [Get it on your Mindket account](https://account.mindket.com/account/?product=mindket#/market/a21e2e1a-e8ea-4b72-803a-f077a73dc9b3) - [Its page on Mindket](https://mindket.com/p/a21e2e1a-e8ea-4b72-803a-f077a73dc9b3)