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Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging task that plays a crucial role in natural human-computer interaction. One of the main challenges in SER is data scarcity, i.e., insufficient amounts of carefully labeled data to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Sarala Padi , Seyed Omid Sadjadi , Dinesh Manocha , Ram D. Sriram

Predicting the altered acoustic frames is an effective way of self-supervised learning for speech representation. However, it is challenging to prevent the pretrained model from overfitting. In this paper, we proposed to introduce two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Jian Luo , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Existing speech emotion recognition (SER) methods commonly suffer from the lack of high-quality large-scale corpus, partly due to the complex, psychological nature of emotion which makes accurate labeling difficult and time consuming.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haoyu Song , Ian McLoughlin , Qing Gu , Nan Jiang , Yan Song

Representation learning from unlabeled data has been of major interest in artificial intelligence research. While self-supervised speech representation learning has been popular in the speech research community, very few works have…

Learning sentence embeddings often requires a large amount of labeled data. However, for most tasks and domains, labeled data is seldom available and creating it is expensive. In this work, we present a new state-of-the-art unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kexin Wang , Nils Reimers , Iryna Gurevych

3D facial reconstruction from a single in-the-wild image is a crucial task in human-centered computer vision tasks. While existing methods can recover accurate facial shapes, there remains significant space for improvement in fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yunfei Liu , Lei Zhu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Ailing Zhang , Yu Li

Direct speech-to-text translation systems encounter an important drawback in data scarcity. A common solution consists on pretraining the encoder on automatic speech recognition, hence losing efficiency in the training process. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Belen Alastruey , Gerard I. Gállego , Marta R. Costa-jussà

End-to-End automatic speech recognition (ASR) models aim to learn a generalised speech representation to perform recognition. In this domain there is little research to analyse internal representation dependencies and their relationship to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Anna Ollerenshaw , Md Asif Jalal , Thomas Hain

Recent research has delved into speech enhancement (SE) approaches that leverage audio embeddings from pre-trained models, diverging from time-frequency masking or signal prediction techniques. This paper introduces an efficient and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Xingwei Sun , Heinrich Dinkel , Yadong Niu , Linzhang Wang , Junbo Zhang , Jian Luan

Recognition of speech, and in particular the ability to generalize and learn from small sets of labelled examples like humans do, depends on an appropriate representation of the acoustic input. We formulate the problem of finding robust…

Supervised learning methods have shown effectiveness in estimating spatial acoustic parameters such as time difference of arrival, direct-to-reverberant ratio and reverberation time. However, they still suffer from the simulation-to-reality…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Bing Yang , Xiaofei Li

We consider the task of unsupervised extraction of meaningful latent representations of speech by applying autoencoding neural networks to speech waveforms. The goal is to learn a representation able to capture high level semantic content…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jan Chorowski , Ron J. Weiss , Samy Bengio , Aäron van den Oord

In this paper, we propose a Text-Degradation Invariant Auto Encoder (Text-DIAE), a self-supervised model designed to tackle two tasks, text recognition (handwritten or scene-text) and document image enhancement. We start by employing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Sanket Biswas , Andres Mafla , Ali Furkan Biten , Alicia Fornés , Yousri Kessentini , Josep Lladós , Lluis Gomez , Dimosthenis Karatzas

This paper studies a novel pre-training technique with unpaired speech data, Speech2C, for encoder-decoder based automatic speech recognition (ASR). Within a multi-task learning framework, we introduce two pre-training tasks for the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Junyi Ao , Ziqiang Zhang , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Haizhou Li , Tom Ko , Lirong Dai , Jinyu Li , Yao Qian , Furu Wei

Self-supervised learning enables the training of large neural models without the need for large, labeled datasets. It has been generating breakthroughs in several fields, including computer vision, natural language processing, biology, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Luis Lugo , Valentin Vielzeuf

Self-supervised speech pre-training empowers the model with the contextual structure inherent in the speech signal while self-supervised text pre-training empowers the model with linguistic information. Both of them are beneficial for…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Zhuoyuan Yao , Shuo Ren , Sanyuan Chen , Ziyang Ma , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie

Speech enhancement (SE) is usually required as a front end to improve the speech quality in noisy environments, while the enhanced speech might not be optimal for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems due to speech distortion. On the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-27 Qiu-Shi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Zi-Qiang Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

In recent years, self-supervised learning paradigm has received extensive attention due to its great success in various down-stream tasks. However, the fine-tuning strategies for adapting those pre-trained models to speaker verification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Junyi Peng , Oldrich Plchot , Themos Stafylakis , Ladislav Mosner , Lukas Burget , Jan Cernocky

Transformer-based pre-trained language models have proven to be effective for learning contextualized language representation. However, current approaches only take advantage of the output of the encoder's final layer when fine-tuning the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Junjie Yang , Hai Zhao

End-to-end speech recognition is a promising technology for enabling compact automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems since it can unify the acoustic and language model into a single neural network. However, as a drawback, training of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yotaro Kubo , Shigeki Karita , Michiel Bacchiani