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Self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques have achieved remarkable results in various speech processing tasks. Nonetheless, a significant challenge remains in reducing the reliance on vast amounts of speech data for pre-training. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Po-chun Hsu , Ali Elkahky , Wei-Ning Hsu , Yossi Adi , Tu Anh Nguyen , Jade Copet , Emmanuel Dupoux , Hung-yi Lee , Abdelrahman Mohamed

The performance of child speech recognition is generally less satisfactory compared to adult speech due to limited amount of training data. Significant performance degradation is expected when applying an automatic speech recognition (ASR)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Wei Liu , Jingyu Li , Tan Lee

Despite the empirical successes of self-supervised learning (SSL) methods, it is unclear what characteristics of their representations lead to high downstream accuracies. In this work, we characterize properties that SSL representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yann Dubois , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Stefano Ermon , Percy Liang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful technique for learning rich representations from unlabeled data. The data representations are able to capture many underlying attributes of data, and be useful in downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Weicheng Zhu , Sheng Liu , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Narges Razavian

Recently, there has been a vast interest in self-supervised learning (SSL) where the model is pre-trained on large scale unlabeled data and then fine-tuned on a small labeled dataset. The common wisdom is that SSL helps resource-limited…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Chengyi Wang , Yu Wu , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Yao Qian , Kenichi Kumatani , Furu Wei

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has allowed leveraging large amounts of unlabeled speech data to improve the performance of speech recognition models even with small annotated datasets. Despite this, speech SSL representations may fail while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Salah Zaiem , Titouan Parcollet , Slim Essid

Self-supervised learning (SSL) proficiency in speech-related tasks has driven research into utilizing discrete tokens for speech tasks like recognition and translation, which offer lower storage requirements and great potential to employ…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Yifan Yang , Feiyu Shen , Chenpeng Du , Ziyang Ma , Kai Yu , Daniel Povey , Xie Chen

In this work, we incorporated acoustically derived source features, aperiodicity, periodicity and pitch as additional targets to an acoustic-to-articulatory speech inversion (SI) system. We also propose a Temporal Convolution based SI…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Yashish M. Siriwardena , Carol Espy-Wilson

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has driven impressive advances in speech processing by adopting time-domain prediction objectives, while audio representation learning frameworks operate on time-frequency spectrograms. Models optimized for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Ameenudeen P E , Charumathi Narayanan , Sriram Ganapathy

Acoustic-to-articulatory speech inversion could enhance automated clinical mispronunciation detection to provide detailed articulatory feedback unattainable by formant-based mispronunciation detection algorithms; however, it is unclear the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Nina R Benway , Yashish M Siriwardena , Jonathan L Preston , Elaine Hitchcock , Tara McAllister , Carol Espy-Wilson

We propose SelfVC, a training strategy to iteratively improve a voice conversion model with self-synthesized examples. Previous efforts on voice conversion focus on factorizing speech into explicitly disentangled representations that…

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has undergone a profound transformation over the past decade, driven by advances in deep learning. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of the modern era of ASR, charting its evolution from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Md. Nayeem , Md Shamse Tabrej , Kabbojit Jit Deb , Shaonti Goswami , Md. Azizul Hakim

Utilizing Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has proven effective, yet limited research has explored cross-lingual scenarios. This study presents a comparative analysis between human performance and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Zhichen Han , Tianqi Geng , Hui Feng , Jiahong Yuan , Korin Richmond , Yuanchao Li

This paper addresses the privacy and security concerns associated with deep neural language models, which serve as crucial components in various modern AI-based applications. These models are often used after being pre-trained and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Abhijit Mishra , Mingda Li , Soham Deo

Recently, masked prediction pre-training has seen remarkable progress in self-supervised learning (SSL) for speech recognition. It usually requires a codebook obtained in an unsupervised way, making it less accurate and difficult to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Chengyi Wang , Yiming Wang , Yu Wu , Sanyuan Chen , Jinyu Li , Shujie Liu , Furu Wei

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models use only the intrinsic structure of a given signal, independent of its acoustic domain, to extract essential information from the input to an embedding space. This implies that the utility of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Eklavya Sarkar , Mathew Magimai. -Doss

In recent years, self-supervised learning (SSL) models have produced promising results in a variety of speech-processing tasks, especially in contexts of data scarcity. In this paper, we study the use of SSL models for the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Jazmin Vidal , Pablo Riera , Luciana Ferrer

Recently, self-supervised pretraining has achieved impressive results in end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, the dominant sequence-to-sequence (S2S) E2E model is still hard to fully utilize the self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Keqi Deng , Songjun Cao , Yike Zhang , Long Ma

In the domain of air traffic control (ATC) systems, efforts to train a practical automatic speech recognition (ASR) model always faces the problem of small training samples since the collection and annotation of speech samples are expert-…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Yi Lin , Qin Li , Bo Yang , Zhen Yan , Huachun Tan , Zhengmao Chen

Inspite the emerging importance of Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), the state-of-the-art accuracy is quite low and needs improvement to make commercial applications of SER viable. A key underlying reason for the low accuracy is the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Siddique Latif , Rajib Rana , Sara Khalifa , Raja Jurdak , Julien Epps , Björn W. Schuller