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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 learned (SSL) speech pre-trained models perform well across various speech processing tasks. Distilled versions of SSL models have been developed to match the needs of on-device speech applications. Though having similar…

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has led to great strides in speech processing. However, the resources needed to train these models has become prohibitively large as they continue to scale. Currently, only a few groups with substantial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 William Chen , Xuankai Chang , Yifan Peng , Zhaoheng Ni , Soumi Maiti , Shinji Watanabe

Self-supervised learning (SSL)-based speech models are extensively used for full-stack speech processing. However, it has been observed that improving SSL-based speech representations using unlabeled speech for content-related tasks is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Amit Meghanani , Thomas Hain

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved remarkable success across various speech-processing tasks. To enhance its efficiency, previous works often leverage the use of compression techniques. A notable recent attempt is DPHuBERT, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Luca Zampierin , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Bac Nguyen , Mirco Ravanelli

Self-supervised learning (SSL) speech models such as wav2vec and HuBERT have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on automatic speech recognition (ASR) and proved to be extremely useful in low label-resource settings. However, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Weiwei Lin , Chenhang He , Man-Wai Mak , Youzhi Tu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has transformed speech processing, yet its reliance on massive pre-training datasets remains a bottleneck. While robustness is often attributed to scale and diversity, the role of the data distribution is less…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Ryan Whetten , Titouan Parcollet , Marco Dinarelli , Yannick Estève

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models like WavLM can be effectively utilized when building speaker diarization systems but are often large and slow, limiting their use in resource constrained scenarios. Previous studies have explored…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Jiangyu Han , Federico Landini , Johan Rohdin , Anna Silnova , Mireia Diez , Jan Cernocky , Lukas Burget

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has seen remarkable advancements with deep neural networks, such as Transformer and Conformer. However, these models typically have large model sizes and high inference costs, posing a challenge to deploy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Huiqiang Jiang , Li Lyna Zhang , Yuang Li , Yu Wu , Shijie Cao , Ting Cao , Yuqing Yang , Jinyu Li , Mao Yang , Lili Qiu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a powerful tool that allows learning of underlying representations from unlabeled data. Transformer based models such as wav2vec 2.0 and HuBERT are leading the field in the speech domain. Generally these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Bethan Thomas , Samuel Kessler , Salah Karout

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches such as wav2vec 2.0 and HuBERT models have shown promising results in various downstream tasks in the speech community. In particular, speech representations learned by SSL models have been shown to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Eesung Kim , Jae-Jin Jeon , Hyeji Seo , Hoon Kim

Large self-supervised speech (SSL) models achieve strong downstream performance, but their size limits deployment in resource-constrained settings. We present HArnESS, an Arabic-centric self-supervised speech model family trained from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Vrunda N. Sukhadia , Shammur Absar Chowdhury

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models have become crucial in speech processing, with recent advancements concentrating on developing architectures that capture representations across multiple timescales. The primary goal of these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-01 Theo Clark , Benedetta Cevoli , Eloy de Jong , Timofey Abramski , Jamie Dougherty

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

In recent years, speech-based self-supervised learning (SSL) has made significant progress in various tasks, including automatic speech recognition (ASR). An ASR model with decent performance can be realized by fine-tuning an SSL model with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-30 Zhisheng Zheng , Ziyang Ma , Yu Wang , Xie Chen

Much research effort is being applied to the task of compressing the knowledge of self-supervised models, which are powerful, yet large and memory consuming. In this work, we show that the original method of knowledge distillation (and its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Danilo de Oliveira , Timo Gerkmann

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 speech representation learning has become essential for extracting meaningful features from untranscribed audio. Recent advances highlight the potential of deriving discrete symbols from the features correlated with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Ryota Komatsu , Takahiro Shinozaki

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved great success in various areas including speech processing. Recently, it is proven that speech based SSL models are able to extract superior universal representations on a range of downstream…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Changli Tang , Yujin Wang , Xie Chen , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved great success in speech-related tasks. While Transformer and Conformer architectures have dominated SSL backbones, encoders like Zipformer, which excel in automatic speech recognition (ASR),…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Yifan Yang , Jianheng Zhuo , Zengrui Jin , Ziyang Ma , Xiaoyu Yang , Zengwei Yao , Liyong Guo , Wei Kang , Fangjun Kuang , Long Lin , Daniel Povey , Xie Chen