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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

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

We present a method for transferring pre-trained self-supervised (SSL) speech representations to multiple languages. There is an abundance of unannotated speech, so creating self-supervised representations from raw audio and fine-tuning on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Samuel Kessler , Bethan Thomas , Salah Karout

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is the latest breakthrough in speech processing, especially for label-scarce downstream tasks by leveraging massive unlabeled audio data. The noise robustness of the SSL is one of the important challenges to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-25 Hiroshi Sato , Ryo Masumura , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takafumi Moriya , Takanori Ashihara , Kentaro Shinayama , Saki Mizuno , Mana Ihori , Tomohiro Tanaka , Nobukatsu Hojo

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has reduced the reliance on expensive labeling in speech technologies by learning meaningful representations from unannotated data. Since most SSL-based downstream tasks prioritize content information in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Giuseppe Ruggiero , Matteo Testa , Jurgen Van de Walle , Luigi Di Caro

Iterative self-training, or iterative pseudo-labeling (IPL) -- using an improved model from the current iteration to provide pseudo-labels for the next iteration -- has proven to be a powerful approach to enhance the quality of speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Zakaria Aldeneh , Takuya Higuchi , Jee-weon Jung , Li-Wei Chen , Stephen Shum , Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz , Shinji Watanabe , Tatiana Likhomanenko , Barry-John Theobald

Self-supervised learned (SSL) models such as Wav2vec and HuBERT yield state-of-the-art results on speech-related tasks. Given the effectiveness of such models, it is advantageous to use them in conventional ASR systems. While some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Darshan Prabhu , Sai Ganesh Mirishkar , Pankaj Wasnik

Pseudo-labeling is the most adopted method for pre-training automatic speech recognition (ASR) models. However, its performance suffers from the supervised teacher model's degrading quality in low-resource setups and under domain transfer.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Alex Xiao , Christian Fuegen , Abdelrahman Mohamed

Training speaker-discriminative and robust speaker verification systems without speaker labels is still challenging and worthwhile to explore. In this study, we propose an effective self-supervised learning framework and a novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Mufan Sang , Haoqi Li , Fang Liu , Andrew O. Arnold , Li Wan

This paper presents Conformer-1, an end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model trained on an extensive dataset of 570k hours of speech audio data, 91% of which was acquired from publicly available sources. To achieve this, we…

Over the last few years, deep learning has grown in popularity for speaker verification, identification, and diarization. Inarguably, a significant part of this success is due to the demonstrated effectiveness of their speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Yehoshua Dissen , Felix Kreuk , Joseph Keshet

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

Audio-visual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) models are very effective at reducing word error rates on noisy speech, but require large amounts of transcribed AV training data. Recently, audio-visual self-supervised learning (SSL)…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Avner May , Dmitriy Serdyuk , Ankit Parag Shah , Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

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

Although state-of-the-art Speech Foundational Models can produce high-quality text pseudo-labels, applying Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) for in-the-wild real-world data remains challenging due to its richer and more complex acoustics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Wen Ding , Fan Qian

The lack of labeled data is a common challenge in speech classification tasks, particularly those requiring extensive subjective assessment, such as cognitive state classification. In this work, we propose a Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Yuanchao Li , Zixing Zhang , Jing Han , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

Training speaker-discriminative and robust speaker verification systems without explicit speaker labels remains a persisting challenge. In this paper, we propose a new self-supervised speaker verification approach, Self-Distillation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-28 Yafeng Chen , Siqi Zheng , Hui Wang , Luyao Cheng , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Wen Wang

Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) has witnessed significant advancements with the advent of deep learning techniques. However, a significant challenge in SVS is the scarcity of labeled singing voice data, which limits the effectiveness of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yifeng Yu , Jiatong Shi , Yuning Wu , Yuxun Tang , Shinji Watanabe

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

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