For example, create a default [Wav2Vec2FeatureExtractor] if you are using Wav2Vec2 for audio classification: from transformers import Wav2Vec2FeatureExtractor w2v2_extractor = Wav2Vec2FeatureExtractor() print(w2v2_extractor) Wav2Vec2FeatureExtractor { "do_normalize": true, "feature_extractor_type": "Wav2Vec2FeatureExtractor", "feature_size": 1, "padding_side": "right", "padding_value": 0.0, "return_attention_mask": false, "sampling_rate": 16000 } If you aren't looking for any customization, just use the from_pretrained method to load a model's default feature extractor parameters.