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 Make sure to modify the file ```path.sh``` in order to export the necessary environment variables. The file ```path.sh``` is also sourced at the beginning of ```run.sh```.
 
+### Model File
+**You need to download and store a model file**. In the main script (```run.sh```) you can specify the ```model_path```. This study is based on the large pretrained model XLSR-53 which can be downloaded here ```https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/blob/main/examples/wav2vec```. 
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+**Unfortunately loading/initializing the model with version ```fairseq 0.12.2``` lead to errors because of mismatches with respect to dictionary keys. Anyway, we provide a script (```local/create_xlsr_new.py```) which stores a new version of the model preventing those errors.
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 ### Stages
 
 Here is a short overview of the stages: