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This paper proposes a multi-task learning network with phoneme-aware and channel-wise attentive learning strategies for text-dependent Speaker Verification (SV). In the proposed structure, the frame-level multi-task learning along with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yan Liu , Zheng Li , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

Speech and language models trained through self-supervised learning (SSL) demonstrate strong alignment with brain activity during speech and language perception. However, given their distinct training modalities, it remains unclear whether…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-01 Peili Chen , Linyang He , Li Fu , Lu Fan , Edward F. Chang , Yuanning Li

Analyses of self-supervised speech models have begun to reveal where and how they represent different types of information. However, almost all analyses have focused on English. Here, we examine how wav2vec2 models trained on four different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Michele Gubian , Ioana Krehan , Oli Liu , James Kirby , Sharon Goldwater

Self supervised representation learning has recently attracted a lot of research interest for both the audio and visual modalities. However, most works typically focus on a particular modality or feature alone and there has been very…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Abhinav Shukla , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Child speech recognition is still an underdeveloped area of research due to the lack of data (especially on non-English languages) and the specific difficulties of this task. Having explored various architectures for child speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Lucas Block Medin , Thomas Pellegrini , Lucile Gelin

Keyword spotting (KWS) and speaker verification (SV) have been studied independently although it is known that acoustic and speaker domains are complementary. In this paper, we propose a multi-task network that performs KWS and SV…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Myunghun Jung , Youngmoon Jung , Jahyun Goo , Hoirin Kim

In this work, we present a novel method, named AV2vec, for learning audio-visual speech representations by multimodal self-distillation. AV2vec has a student and a teacher module, in which the student performs a masked latent feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Genshun Wan , Zhen-Hua Ling , Jia Pan , Jianqing Gao , Cong Liu

We propose emotion2vec, a universal speech emotion representation model. emotion2vec is pre-trained on open-source unlabeled emotion data through self-supervised online distillation, combining utterance-level loss and frame-level loss…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ziyang Ma , Zhisheng Zheng , Jiaxin Ye , Jinchao Li , Zhifu Gao , Shiliang Zhang , Xie Chen

With excellent generalization ability, self-supervised speech models have shown impressive performance on various downstream speech tasks in the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm. However, as the growing size of pre-trained models,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-04 Mufan Sang , John H. L. Hansen

In this paper, we propose a new Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) algorithm called data2vec-aqc, for speech representation learning from unlabeled speech data. Our goal is to improve SSL for speech in domains where both unlabeled and labeled…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Vasista Sai Lodagala , Sreyan Ghosh , S. Umesh

This paper presents XLS-R, a large-scale model for cross-lingual speech representation learning based on wav2vec 2.0. We train models with up to 2B parameters on nearly half a million hours of publicly available speech audio in 128…

Existing methods for vision-and-language learning typically require designing task-specific architectures and objectives for each task. For example, a multi-label answer classifier for visual question answering, a region scorer for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Jaemin Cho , Jie Lei , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

Recent advancements in neural audio codecs have not only enabled superior audio compression but also enhanced speech synthesis techniques. Researchers are now exploring their potential as universal acoustic feature extractors for a broader…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Wei-Cheng Tseng , David Harwath

In this study, we investigate self-supervised representation learning for speaker verification (SV). First, we examine a simple contrastive learning approach (SimCLR) with a momentum contrastive (MoCo) learning framework, where the MoCo…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Wei Xia , Chunlei Zhang , Chao Weng , Meng Yu , Dong Yu

Significant strides have been made in creating voice identity representations using speech data. However, the same level of progress has not been achieved for singing voices. To bridge this gap, we suggest a framework for training singer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Bernardo Torres , Stefan Lattner , Gaël Richard

Labeled audio data is insufficient to build satisfying speech recognition systems for most of the languages in the world. There have been some zero-resource methods trying to perform phoneme or word-level speech recognition without labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Haoyu Wang , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Hongbin Suo , Yulong Wan

Self-supervised pre-training paradigms have been extensively explored in the field of skeleton-based action recognition. In particular, methods based on masked prediction have pushed the performance of pre-training to a new height. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Ruizhuo Xu , Linzhi Huang , Mei Wang , Jiani Hu , Weihong Deng

This technical report presents the modeling approaches used in our submission to the ICML Expressive Vocalizations Workshop & Competition multitask track (ExVo-MultiTask). We first applied image classification models of various sizes on…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Josh Belanich , Krishna Somandepalli , Brian Eoff , Brendan Jou

In this paper, we introduce the task of learning unsupervised dialogue embeddings. Trivial approaches such as combining pre-trained word or sentence embeddings and encoding through pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been shown to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Che Liu , Rui Wang , Junfeng Jiang , Yongbin Li , Fei Huang

Speech foundation models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in speech-related tasks. Nevertheless, these models often struggle with non-verbal audio data, such as vocalizations, baby crying, etc., which are critical for various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Alkis Koudounas , Moreno La Quatra , Marco Sabato Siniscalchi , Elena Baralis