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Recent studies have shown that the benefits provided by self-supervised pre-training and self-training (pseudo-labeling) are complementary. Semi-supervised fine-tuning strategies under the pre-training framework, however, remain…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Bowen Zhang , Songjun Cao , Xiaoming Zhang , Yike Zhang , Long Ma , Takahiro Shinozaki

We study pseudo-labeling for the semi-supervised training of ResNet, Time-Depth Separable ConvNets, and Transformers for speech recognition, with either CTC or Seq2Seq loss functions. We perform experiments on the standard LibriSpeech…

We present Self Meta Pseudo Labels, a novel semi-supervised learning method similar to Meta Pseudo Labels but without the teacher model. We introduce a novel way to use a single model for both generating pseudo labels and classification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Kei-Sing Ng , Qingchen Wang

Speech emotion recognition (SER) models typically rely on costly human-labeled data for training, making scaling methods to large speech datasets and nuanced emotion taxonomies difficult. We present LanSER, a method that enables the use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Taesik Gong , Josh Belanich , Krishna Somandepalli , Arsha Nagrani , Brian Eoff , Brendan Jou

Building competitive automatic speech recognition (ASR) models usually requires large-scale au- dio supervision, which makes reproduction and specialization expensive. We study Ark-ASR, a 0.6B- parameter audio-conditioned language model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yu Lin , Yiming Wang , Runyuan Cai , Xiaodong Zeng

Despite recent advancements in deep learning technologies, Child Speech Recognition remains a challenging task. Current Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models require substantial amounts of annotated data for training, which is scarce.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Rishabh Jain , Andrei Barcovschi , Mariam Yiwere , Dan Bigioi , Peter Corcoran , Horia Cucu

End-to-end automatic speech recognition systems represent the state of the art, but they rely on thousands of hours of manually annotated speech for training, as well as heavyweight computation for inference. Of course, this impedes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Raphael Tang , Karun Kumar , Gefei Yang , Akshat Pandey , Yajie Mao , Vladislav Belyaev , Madhuri Emmadi , Craig Murray , Ferhan Ture , Jimmy Lin

This paper proposes a powerful Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) method for multiple languages, especially for low-resource languages that have a limited number of labeled data. Different from previous methods that tried to improve the VSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Jeong Hun Yeo , Minsu Kim , Shinji Watanabe , Yong Man Ro

State-of-the-art deep neural networks require large-scale labeled training data that is often expensive to obtain or not available for many tasks. Weak supervision in the form of domain-specific rules has been shown to be useful in such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Giannis Karamanolakis , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Guoqing Zheng , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

In this paper we revisit the idea of pseudo-labeling in the context of semi-supervised learning where a learning algorithm has access to a small set of labeled samples and a large set of unlabeled samples. Pseudo-labeling works by applying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Paola Cascante-Bonilla , Fuwen Tan , Yanjun Qi , Vicente Ordonez

Fine-tuning pretrained ASR models for specific domains is challenging when labeled data is scarce. But unlabeled audio and labeled data from related domains are often available. We propose an incremental semi-supervised learning pipeline…

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often degrade on accented speech because acoustic-phonetic and prosodic shifts induce a mismatch to training data, making labeled accent adaptation costly. However, common pseudo-label selection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ligong Lei , Wenwen Lu , Xudong Pang , Zaokere Kadeer , Aishan Wumaier

The common standard for quality evaluation of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is reference-based metrics such as the Word Error Rate (WER), computed using manual ground-truth transcriptions that are time-consuming and expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Kamer Ali Yuksel , Thiago Ferreira , Ahmet Gunduz , Mohamed Al-Badrashiny , Golara Javadi

Self-supervised learning systems have gained significant attention in recent years by leveraging clustering-based pseudo-labels to provide supervision without the need for human annotations. However, the noise in these pseudo-labels caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Zia-ur-Rehman , Arif Mahmood , Wenxiong Kang

Deep learning usually achieves the best results with complete supervision. In the case of semantic segmentation, this means that large amounts of pixelwise annotations are required to learn accurate models. In this paper, we show that we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Yi Zhu , Zhongyue Zhang , Chongruo Wu , Zhi Zhang , Tong He , Hang Zhang , R. Manmatha , Mu Li , Alexander Smola

Although state-of-the-art Speech Foundational Models can produce high-quality text pseudo-labels, applying Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) for in-the-wild real-world data remains challenging due to its richer and more complex acoustics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Wen Ding , Fan Qian

The cost of annotating transcriptions for large speech corpora becomes a bottleneck to maximally enjoy the potential capacity of deep neural network-based automatic speech recognition models. In this paper, we present a new training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Jihwan Bang , Heesu Kim , YoungJoon Yoo , Jung-Woo Ha

The amount of manually labeled data is limited in medical applications, so semi-supervised learning and automatic labeling strategies can be an asset for training deep neural networks. However, the quality of the automatically generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Wenhui Cui , Haleh Akrami , Anand A. Joshi , Richard M. Leahy

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has the potential to substantially reduce manual annotation effort in child speech research by generating automatic transcriptions. However, obtaining reliably high-quality ASR transcriptions for child…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Gus Lathouwers , Lingyun Gao , Catia Cucchiarini , Helmer Strik

Speaker representation learning is crucial for voice recognition systems, with recent advances in self-supervised approaches reducing dependency on labeled data. Current two-stage iterative frameworks, while effective, suffer from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Danwei Cai , Zexin Cai , Ze Li , Ming Li