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Recent work has explored using self-supervised learning (SSL) speech representations such as wav2vec2.0 as the representation medium in standard two-stage TTS, in place of conventionally used mel-spectrograms. It is however unclear which…

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In this work, we study the features extracted by English self-supervised learning (SSL) models in cross-lingual contexts and propose a new metric to predict the quality of feature representations. Using automatic speech recognition (ASR) as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Shuyue Stella Li , Beining Xu , Xiangyu Zhang , Hexin Liu , Wenhan Chao , Leibny Paola Garcia

To understand why self-supervised learning (SSL) models have empirically achieved strong performances on several speech-processing downstream tasks, numerous studies have focused on analyzing the encoded information of the SSL layer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Jialu Li , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Nancy L. McElwain

Self-supervised learning (SSL) speech representations learned from large amounts of diverse, mixed-quality speech data without transcriptions are gaining ground in many speech technology applications. Prior work has shown that SSL is an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Siyang Wang , Gustav Eje Henter , Joakim Gustafson , Éva Székely

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has garnered significant attention in speech processing, excelling in linguistic tasks such as speech recognition. However, jointly improving the performance of pre-trained models on various downstream tasks,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Tianrui Wang , Jin Li , Ziyang Ma , Rui Cao , Xie Chen , Longbiao Wang , Meng Ge , Xiaobao Wang , Yuguang Wang , Jianwu Dang , Nyima Tashi

Recently proposed self-supervised learning approaches have been successful for pre-training speech representation models. The utility of these learned representations has been observed empirically, but not much has been studied about the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Ankita Pasad , Ju-Chieh Chou , Karen Livescu

Speech fluency/disfluency can be evaluated by analyzing a range of phonetic and prosodic features. Deep neural networks are commonly trained to map fluency-related features into the human scores. However, the effectiveness of deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Kaiqi Fu , Shaojun Gao , Shuju Shi , Xiaohai Tian , Wei Li , Zejun Ma

Self-supervised learned models have been found to be very effective for certain speech tasks such as automatic speech recognition, speaker identification, keyword spotting and others. While the features are undeniably useful in speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Ravi Shankar , Ke Tan , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar

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

We investigate the performance of self-supervised pretraining frameworks on pathological speech datasets used for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Modern end-to-end models require thousands of hours of data to train well, but only a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Lester Phillip Violeta , Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Toda

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

Pre-trained models, especially self-supervised learning (SSL) models, have demonstrated impressive results in automatic speech recognition (ASR) task. While most applications of SSL models focus on leveraging continuous representations as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Zehan Li , Yan Yang , Xueqing Li , Jian Kang , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Jie Li

A recent line of research on automated speaking assessment (ASA) has benefited from self-supervised learning (SSL) representations, which capture rich acoustic and linguistic patterns in non-native speech without underlying assumptions of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Tien-Hong Lo , Szu-Yu Chen , Yao-Ting Sung , Berlin Chen

While supervised quality predictors for synthesized speech have demonstrated strong correlations with human ratings, their requirement for in-domain labeled training data hinders their generalization ability to new domains. Unsupervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Erica Cooper , Takuma Okamoto , Yamato Ohtani , Tomoki Toda , Hisashi Kawai

Recent studies demonstrate the effectiveness of Self Supervised Learning (SSL) speech representations for Speech Inversion (SI). However, applying SI in real-world scenarios remains challenging due to the pervasive presence of background…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Saba Tabatabaee , Carol Espy-Wilson

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have proven to be very successful in automatic speech recognition (ASR). These great improvements have been reported mostly based on highly curated datasets such as LibriSpeech for non-streaming…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Mostafa Karimi , Changliang Liu , Kenichi Kumatani , Yao Qian , Tianyu Wu , Jian Wu

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) predominantly relies on supervised approaches. However, acquiring labeled data for training ASC models is often costly and time-consuming. Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Yiqiang Cai , Shengchen Li , Xi Shao

There has been a growing demand for automated spoken language assessment systems in recent years. A standard pipeline for this process is to start with a speech recognition system and derive features, either hand-crafted or based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Stefano Bannò , Kate M. Knill , Marco Matassoni , Vyas Raina , Mark J. F. Gales

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

ML-SUPERB evaluates self-supervised learning (SSL) models on the tasks of language identification and automatic speech recognition (ASR). This benchmark treats the models as feature extractors and uses a single shallow downstream model,…