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Speech enhancement and separation are two fundamental tasks for robust speech processing. Speech enhancement suppresses background noise while speech separation extracts target speech from interfering speakers. Despite a great number of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zili Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Shu-wen Yang , Paola Garcia , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Self-supervised learning (SSL) for speech representation has been successfully applied in various downstream tasks, such as speech and speaker recognition. More recently, speech SSL models have also been shown to be beneficial in advancing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Takanori Ashihara , Takafumi Moriya , Kohei Matsuura , Tomohiro Tanaka , Yusuke Ijima , Taichi Asami , Marc Delcroix , Yukinori Honma

Self-supervised learning (SSL) foundation models have emerged as powerful, domain-agnostic, general-purpose feature extractors applicable to a wide range of tasks. Such models pre-trained on human speech have demonstrated high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Eklavya Sarkar , Mathew Magimai. -Doss

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) from speech data has produced models that have achieved remarkable performance in many tasks, and that are known to implicitly represent many aspects of information latently present in speech signals. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Guan-Ting Lin , Chi-Luen Feng , Wei-Ping Huang , Yuan Tseng , Tzu-Han Lin , Chen-An Li , Hung-yi Lee , Nigel G. Ward

Deep learning models trained in a supervised setting have revolutionized audio and speech processing. However, their performance inherently depends on the quantity of human-annotated data, making them costly to scale and prone to poor…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Theo Lepage , Reda Dehak

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has gained traction for its ability to learn rich representations with low labeling costs, applicable across diverse downstream tasks. However, assessing the downstream-task performance remains challenging due…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Takashi Maekaku , Keita Goto , Jinchuan Tian , Yusuke Shinohara , Shinji Watanabe

Recent advancements in Deep and Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) have led to substantial improvements in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) performance, reaching unprecedented levels. However, obtaining sufficient amounts of accurately labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Bulat Khaertdinov , Pedro Jeuris , Annanda Sousa , Enrique Hortal

Although supervised learning has been highly successful in improving the state-of-the-art in the domain of image-based computer vision in the past, the margin of improvement has diminished significantly in recent years, indicating that a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Utku Ozbulak , Hyun Jung Lee , Beril Boga , Esla Timothy Anzaku , Homin Park , Arnout Van Messem , Wesley De Neve , Joris Vankerschaver

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a powerful tool in machine learning, but understanding the learned representations and their underlying mechanisms remains a challenge. This paper presents an in-depth empirical analysis of SSL-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Ido Ben-Shaul , Ravid Shwartz-Ziv , Tomer Galanti , Shai Dekel , Yann LeCun

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) using huge unlabeled data has been successfully explored for image and natural language processing. Recent works also investigated SSL from speech. They were notably successful to improve performance on…

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has grown in interest within the speech processing community, since it produces representations that are useful for many downstream tasks. SSL uses global and contextual methods to produce robust…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Subrina Sultana , Donald S. Williamson

Supervised learning demands large amounts of precisely annotated data to achieve promising results. Such data curation is labor-intensive and imposes significant overhead regarding time and costs. Self-supervised learning (SSL) partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Thangarajah Akilan , Nusrat Jahan , Wandong Zhang

Self-supervised learning in speech involves training a speech representation network on a large-scale unannotated speech corpus, and then applying the learned representations to downstream tasks. Since the majority of the downstream tasks…

Speaker verification (SV) systems are currently being used to make sensitive decisions like giving access to bank accounts or deciding whether the voice of a suspect coincides with that of the perpetrator of a crime. Ensuring that these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mariel Estevez , Luciana Ferrer

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models have significantly advanced speech processing tasks, and several benchmarks have been proposed to validate their effectiveness. However, previous benchmarks have primarily focused on single-speaker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Junyi Peng , Takanori Ashihara , Marc Delcroix , Tsubasa Ochiai , Oldrich Plchot , Shoko Araki , Jan Černocký

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

Audio and speech self-supervised encoder models are now widely used for a lot of different tasks. Many of these models are often trained on clean segmented speech content such as LibriSpeech. In this paper, we look into how the pretraining…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Valentin Pelloin , Lina Bekkali , Reda Dehak , David Doukhan

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently shown remarkable results in closing the gap between supervised and unsupervised learning. The idea is to learn robust features that are invariant to distortions of the input data. Despite its…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Bac Nguyen , Stefan Uhlich , Fabien Cardinaux

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently achieved impressive performance on various time series tasks. The most prominent advantage of SSL is that it reduces the dependence on labeled data. Based on the pre-training and fine-tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Kexin Zhang , Qingsong Wen , Chaoli Zhang , Rongyao Cai , Ming Jin , Yong Liu , James Zhang , Yuxuan Liang , Guansong Pang , Dongjin Song , Shirui Pan