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Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a long-standing goal for speech processing, since it utilizes large-scale unlabeled data and avoids extensive human labeling. Recent years witness great successes in applying self-supervised learning in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Chengyi Wang , Zhengyang Chen , Zhuo Chen , Shujie Liu , Jian Wu , Yao Qian , Furu Wei , Jinyu Li , Xiangzhan Yu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models have achieved considerable improvements in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In addition, ASR performance could be further improved if the model is dedicated to audio content information learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-08 Genshun Wan , Tan Liu , Hang Chen , Jia Pan , Cong Liu , Zhongfu Ye

Self-supervised learning (SSL) based models have been shown to generate powerful representations that can be used to improve the performance of downstream speech tasks. Several state-of-the-art SSL models are available, and each of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 A Arunkumar , Vrunda N Sukhadia , S. Umesh

The cross-domain performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) could be severely hampered due to the mismatch between training and testing distributions. Since the target domain usually lacks labeled data, and domain shifts exist at…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Han Zhu , Gaofeng Cheng , Jindong Wang , Wenxin Hou , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

Self-supervised learning (SSL), which utilizes the input data itself for representation learning, has achieved state-of-the-art results for various downstream speech tasks. However, most of the previous studies focused on offline…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Zili Huang , Zhuo Chen , Naoyuki Kanda , Jian Wu , Yiming Wang , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka , Xiaofei Wang , Peidong Wang

Improving generalization is a major challenge in audio classification due to labeled data scarcity. Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods tackle this by leveraging unlabeled data to learn useful features for downstream classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Melikasadat Emami , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida

Self-supervised learning (SSL) of speech has shown impressive results in speech-related tasks, particularly in automatic speech recognition (ASR). While most methods employ the output of intermediate layers of the SSL model as real-valued…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Xuankai Chang , Brian Yan , Yuya Fujita , Takashi Maekaku , Shinji Watanabe

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has been dramatically successful not only in monolingual but also in cross-lingual settings. However, since the two settings have been studied individually in general, there has been little research focusing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Takanori Ashihara , Takafumi Moriya , Kohei Matsuura , Tomohiro Tanaka

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is used in deep learning to train on large datasets without the need for expensive labelling of the data. Recently, large Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models such as XLS-R have utilised SSL to train on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Edward Storey , Naomi Harte , Peter Bell

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods which learn representations of data without explicit supervision have gained popularity in speech-processing tasks, particularly for single-talker applications. However, these models often have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Zili Huang , Desh Raj , Paola García , Sanjeev Khudanpur

In Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), pre-training and evaluation are resource intensive. In the speech domain, current indicators of the quality of SSL models during pre-training, such as the loss, do not correlate well with downstream…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ryan Whetten , Lucas Maison , Titouan Parcollet , Marco Dinarelli , Yannick Estève

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has shown rapid advances in recent years but still degrades significantly in far-field and noisy environments. The recent development of self-supervised learning (SSL) technology can improve the ASR…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Changfeng Gao , Gaofeng Cheng , Pengyuan Zhang

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) has been proved to be an effective way to leverage both labeled and unlabeled data at the same time. Recent semi-supervised approaches focus on deep neural networks and have achieved promising results on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Hong-Yu Zhou , Avital Oliver , Jianxin Wu , Yefeng Zheng

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

Recently, pioneer work finds that speech pre-trained models can solve full-stack speech processing tasks, because the model utilizes bottom layers to learn speaker-related information and top layers to encode content-related information.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Chengyi Wang , Yu Wu , Sanyuan Chen , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Yao Qian , Zhenglu Yang

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is an active area of research which aims to utilize unlabelled data in order to improve the accuracy of speech recognition systems. The current study proposes a methodology for integration of two key ideas: 1)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Prakhar Swarup , Debmalya Chakrabarty , Ashtosh Sapru , Hitesh Tulsiani , Harish Arsikere , Sri Garimella

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has proven vital in speech and audio-related applications. The paradigm trains a general model on unlabeled data that can later be used to solve specific downstream tasks. This type of model is costly to train…

Recent years have witnessed great strides in self-supervised learning (SSL) on the speech processing. The SSL model is normally pre-trained on a great variety of unlabelled data and a large model size is preferred to increase the modeling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-08 Yujin Wang , Changli Tang , Ziyang Ma , Zhisheng Zheng , Xie Chen , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) speech models, which can serve as powerful upstream models to extract meaningful speech representations, have achieved unprecedented success in speech representation learning. However, their effectiveness on…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Tung-Yu Wu , Chen-An Li , Tzu-Han Lin , Tsu-Yuan Hsu , Hung-Yi Lee

Self-supervised learning (SSL) in audio holds significant potential across various domains, particularly in situations where abundant, unlabeled data is readily available at no cost. This is pertinent in bioacoustics, where biologists…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Ilyass Moummad , Romain Serizel , Nicolas Farrugia