# Using Wav2Vec2.0 XLSR without finetuning possible?

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/using-wav2vec2-0-xlsr-without-finetuning-possible/26916>\
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**Created:** [November 29, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/using-wav2vec2-0-xlsr-without-finetuning-possible/26916 "2022-11-29T06:36:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/using-wav2vec2-0-xlsr-without-finetuning-possible/26916/1 "2022-11-29T06:36:41Z")

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Out of curiosity, is it possible to use wav2vec2-xlsr without finetuning provided we pass in a tokenizer for the language of choice? All example of usage have been on finetuned models, and I was wondering if there was a reason for always finetuning, and if it even makes sense to use wav2vec2-xlsr without finetuning.

Thanks in advance!