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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

In this study, we aim to explore efficient tuning methods for speech self-supervised learning. Recent studies show that self-supervised learning (SSL) can learn powerful representations for different speech tasks. However, fine-tuning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Zih-Ching Chen , Chin-Lun Fu , Chih-Ying Liu , Shang-Wen Li , Hung-yi Lee

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…

Automatic speaker verification task has made great achievements using deep learning approaches with the large-scale manually annotated dataset. However, it's very difficult and expensive to collect a large amount of well-labeled data for…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Bing Han , Zhengyang Chen , Yanmin Qian

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

Source separation can improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) under multi-party meeting scenarios by extracting single-speaker signals from overlapped speech. Despite the success of self-supervised learning models in single-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Yuang Li , Xianrui Zheng , Philip C. Woodland

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

In this paper, we apply Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) along with Data Augmentation (DA) for improving the accuracy of End-to-End ASR. We focus on the consistency regularization principle, which has been successfully applied to image…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Felix Weninger , Franco Mana , Roberto Gemello , Jesús Andrés-Ferrer , Puming Zhan

With the continuous development of speech recognition technology, speaker verification (SV) has become an important method for identity authentication. Traditional SV methods rely on handcrafted feature extraction, while deep learning has…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Zhaorui Sun , Yihao Chen , Jialong Wang , Minqiang Xu , Lei Fang , Sian Fang , Lin Liu

Research in the past several years has boosted the performance of automatic speaker verification systems and countermeasure systems to deliver low Equal Error Rates (EERs) on each system. However, research on joint optimization of both…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Zhongwei Teng , Quchen Fu , Jules White , Maria E. Powell , Douglas C. Schmidt

We introduce Condition-Aware Self-Supervised Learning Representation (CA-SSLR), a generalist conditioning model broadly applicable to various speech-processing tasks. Compared to standard fine-tuning methods that optimize for downstream…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Yen-Ju Lu , Jing Liu , Thomas Thebaud , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Ariya Rastrow , Najim Dehak , Jesus Villalba

In this study, we investigate self-supervised representation learning for speaker verification (SV). First, we examine a simple contrastive learning approach (SimCLR) with a momentum contrastive (MoCo) learning framework, where the MoCo…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Wei Xia , Chunlei Zhang , Chao Weng , Meng Yu , Dong Yu

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

Automatic detection of speaker confidence is critical for adaptive computing but remains constrained by limited labelled data and the subjectivity of paralinguistic annotations. This paper proposes a semi-supervised hybrid framework that…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Adam Wynn , Jingyun Wang

The lack of labeled data is a major obstacle in many music information retrieval tasks such as melody extraction, where labeling is extremely laborious or costly. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) provides a solution to alleviate the issue by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Sangeun Kum , Jing-Hua Lin , Li Su , Juhan Nam

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

This paper presents our system for the MISP-Meeting Challenge Track 2. The primary difficulty lies in the dataset, which contains strong background noise, reverberation, overlapping speech, and diverse meeting topics. To address these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Longjie Luo , Shenghui Lu , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

Enhancing explainability in speech self-supervised learning (SSL) is important for developing reliable SSL-based speech processing systems. This study probes how speech SSL models encode speaker-specific information via a large-scale…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Aemon Yat Fei Chiu , Kei Ching Fung , Roger Tsz Yeung Li , Jingyu Li , Tan Lee

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

In real application scenarios, it is often challenging to obtain a large amount of labeled data for speaker representation learning due to speaker privacy concerns. Self-supervised learning with no labels has become a more and more…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Zhengyang Chen , Yao Qian , Bing Han , Yanmin Qian , Michael Zeng