# ASR Model Tokenizer Won't Load

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/asr-model-tokenizer-wont-load/101575>\
**Category:** 🤗Transformers\
**Created:** [August 8, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/asr-model-tokenizer-wont-load/101575 "2024-08-08T20:55:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/asr-model-tokenizer-wont-load/101575/1 "2024-08-08T20:55:46Z")

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I’m trying to load the ASR model ‘facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53’ so I made this simple script to test:

```auto
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor

# Define the model name
model_name = "facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53"

# Download the processor and the model
processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(model_name)
processor.save_pretrained("wav2vec2_model")
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(model_name)
model.save_pretrained("wav2vec2_model")

print("Model and processor downloaded and saved locally.")

```

But I kept getting this error:

```auto
OSError: Can't load tokenizer for 'facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53'. If you were trying to load it from 'https://huggingface.co/models', make sure you don't have a local directory with the same name. Otherwise, make sure 'facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53' is the correct path to a directory containing all relevant files for a Wav2Vec2CTCTokenizer tokenizer.

```

I’ve tried cleared the cache and tried using ‘AutoProcessor’ instead of ‘Wav2Vec2Processor’, but the issue still persists. Has anyone seen this error and know how to resolve this issue?