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Self-supervised learning (SSL) based speech pre-training has attracted much attention for its capability of extracting rich representations learned from massive unlabeled data. On the other hand, the use of weakly-supervised data is less…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Wangyou Zhang , Yanmin Qian

Multimodal speech recognition aims to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems by leveraging additional visual information that is usually associated to the audio input. While previous approaches make crucial…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Dan Oneata , Horia Cucu

The prediction of valence from speech is an important, but challenging problem. The externalization of valence in speech has speaker-dependent cues, which contribute to performances that are often significantly lower than the prediction of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Kusha Sridhar , Carlos Busso

Self-supervised representation learning (SSRL) has demonstrated superior performance than supervised models for tasks including phoneme recognition. Training SSRL models poses a challenge for low-resource languages where sufficient…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Asad Ullah , Alessandro Ragano , Andrew Hines

In this paper, we investigate domain adaptation for low-resource Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) of target-domain data, when a well-trained ASR model trained with a large dataset is available. We argue that in the encoder-decoder…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Vrunda N. Sukhadia , S. Umesh

End-to-end automatic speech recognition often degrades on domain-specific data due to scarce in-domain resources. We propose a synthetic-data-based domain adaptation framework with two contributions: (1) a large language model (LLM)-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Natsuo Yamashita , Koichi Nagatsuka , Hiroaki Kokubo , Kota Dohi , Tuan Vu Ho

Self- and semi-supervised learning methods have been actively investigated to reduce labeled training data or enhance the model performance. However, the approach mostly focus on in-domain performance for public datasets. In this study, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Dongseong Hwang , Ananya Misra , Zhouyuan Huo , Nikhil Siddhartha , Shefali Garg , David Qiu , Khe Chai Sim , Trevor Strohman , Françoise Beaufays , Yanzhang He

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been widely researched with supervised approaches, while many low-resourced languages lack audio-text aligned data, and supervised methods cannot be applied on them. In this work, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Yi-Chen Chen , Chia-Hao Shen , Sung-Feng Huang , Hung-yi Lee

Self-supervised pre-trained speech models have strongly improved speech recognition, yet they are still sensitive to domain shifts and accented or atypical speech. Many of these models rely on quantisation or clustering to learn discrete…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Jakob Poncelet , Hugo Van hamme

This paper investigates a self-adaptation method for speech enhancement using auxiliary speaker-aware features; we extract a speaker representation used for adaptation directly from the test utterance. Conventional studies of deep neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Yuma Koizumi , Kohei Yatabe , Marc Delcroix , Yoshiki Masuyama , Daiki Takeuchi

Unsupervised speech representation learning has shown remarkable success at finding representations that correlate with phonetic structures and improve downstream speech recognition performance. However, most research has been focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Kazuya Kawakami , Luyu Wang , Chris Dyer , Phil Blunsom , Aaron van den Oord

Recent advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) have combined speech encoders with large language models (LLMs) through projection, forming Speech LLMs with strong performance. However, adapting them to new domains remains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Yangui Fang , Jing Peng , Xu Li , Yu Xi , Chengwei Zhang , Guohui Zhong , Kai Yu

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is important for applications where large scale annotation of representative data is challenging. For semantic segmentation in particular, it helps deploy on real "target domain" data models that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Tuan-Hung Vu , Himalaya Jain , Maxime Bucher , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Pérez

We propose an approach for pre-training speech representations via a masked reconstruction loss. Our pre-trained encoder networks are bidirectional and can therefore be used directly in typical bidirectional speech recognition models. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-07 Weiran Wang , Qingming Tang , Karen Livescu

The utilization of speech Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models achieves impressive performance on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). However, in low-resource language ASR, they encounter the domain mismatch problem between pre-trained and…

Supervised learning with large scale labeled datasets and deep layered models has made a paradigm shift in diverse areas in learning and recognition. However, this approach still suffers generalization issues under the presence of a domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-28 Ozan Sener , Hyun Oh Song , Ashutosh Saxena , Silvio Savarese

Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to transfer the classifier learned from the source domain to the target domain in an unsupervised manner. With the help of target pseudo-labels, aligning class-level distributions and learning the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Dong-Dong Chen , Yisen Wang , Jinfeng Yi , Zaiyi Chen , Zhi-Hua Zhou

In Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), teacher-student (T/S) training has shown to perform well for domain adaptation with small amount of training data. However, adaption without ground-truth labels is still challenging. A previous study…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-08 Rehan Ahmad , Muhammad Umar Farooq , Thomas Hain

We present a novel multiple-source unsupervised model for text classification under domain shift. Our model exploits the update rates in document representations to dynamically integrate domain encoders. It also employs a probabilistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Payam Karisani

Meaning of a word varies from one domain to another. Despite this important domain dependence in word semantics, existing word representation learning methods are bound to a single domain. Given a pair of \emph{source}-\emph{target}…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Danushka Bollegala , Takanori Maehara , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi