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Transformer-based audio self-supervised learning (SSL) models commonly use spectrograms, vision-style Transformers, and masked modeling objectives. However, convolutional patchification with temporal downsampling lowers the effective…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kohei Yamamoto , Kosuke Okusa

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

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

Automatic singing voice understanding tasks, such as singer identification, singing voice transcription, and singing technique classification, benefit from data-driven approaches that utilize deep learning techniques. These approaches work…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuya Yamamoto

Recent studies on semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSS) have seen fast progress. Despite their promising performance, current state-of-the-art methods tend to increasingly complex designs at the cost of introducing more network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Zhen Zhao , Lihe Yang , Sifan Long , Jimin Pi , Luping Zhou , Jingdong Wang

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has gained traction for its ability to learn rich representations with low labeling costs, applicable across diverse downstream tasks. However, assessing the downstream-task performance remains challenging due…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Takashi Maekaku , Keita Goto , Jinchuan Tian , Yusuke Shinohara , Shinji Watanabe

Self-supervised language models are very effective at predicting high-level cortical responses during language comprehension. However, the best current models of lower-level auditory processing in the human brain rely on either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Aditya R. Vaidya , Shailee Jain , Alexander G. Huth

Labelled data are limited and self-supervised learning is one of the most important approaches for reducing labelling requirements. While it has been extensively explored in the image domain, it has so far not received the same amount of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jingyong Liang , Bernd Meyer , Isaac Ning Lee , Thanh-Toan Do

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for learning flexible speech representations from unlabeled data. By designing pretext tasks that exploit statistical regularities, SSL models can capture useful…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Yusuf Brima , Ulf Krumnack , Simone Pika , Gunther Heidemann

Self-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms have emerged as powerful tools that can leverage large quantities of unlabeled audio data to pre-train robust representations that support strong performance on diverse downstream tasks. Up to now…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Mattson Ogg

The utilization of speech Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models achieves impressive performance on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). However, in low-resource language ASR, they encounter the domain mismatch problem between pre-trained and…

Deep learning models trained in a supervised setting have revolutionized audio and speech processing. However, their performance inherently depends on the quantity of human-annotated data, making them costly to scale and prone to poor…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Theo Lepage , Reda Dehak

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has shown tremendous success in various speech-related downstream tasks, including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The output embeddings of the SSL model are treated as powerful short-time representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Arunkumar A , Umesh S

This paper presents our work of training acoustic event detection (AED) models using unlabeled dataset. Recent acoustic event detectors are based on large-scale neural networks, which are typically trained with huge amounts of labeled data.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-01 Bowen Shi , Ming Sun , Chieh-Chi Kao , Viktor Rozgic , Spyros Matsoukas , Chao Wang

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

We examine the text-free speech representations of raw audio obtained from a self-supervised learning (SSL) model by analyzing the synthesized speech using the SSL representations instead of conventional text representations. Since raw…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Joonyong Park , Daisuke Saito , Nobuaki Minematsu

In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC), the task of identifying the scene of an audio recording from its acoustic signature. In particular, we firstly propose an inception-based and low…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Lam Pham , Dusan Salovic , Anahid Jalali , Alexander Schindler , Khoa Tran , Canh Vu , Phu X. Nguyen

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) and Sound Event Detection (SED) are two separate tasks in the field of computational sound scene analysis. In this work, we present a new dataset with both sound scene and sound event labels and use this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Helen L. Bear , Ines Nolasco , Emmanouil Benetos

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has grown in interest within the speech processing community, since it produces representations that are useful for many downstream tasks. SSL uses global and contextual methods to produce robust…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Subrina Sultana , Donald S. Williamson

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) for speaker verification (SV) has drawn increasing interest recently due to its ability to exploit unlabeled data. Performing data augmentation on raw waveforms, such as adding noise or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Chong-Xin Gan , Man-Wai Mak , Weiwei Lin , Jen-Tzung Chien