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Despite recent advancements in deep learning technologies, Child Speech Recognition remains a challenging task. Current Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models require substantial amounts of annotated data for training, which is scarce.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Rishabh Jain , Andrei Barcovschi , Mariam Yiwere , Dan Bigioi , Peter Corcoran , Horia Cucu

Self-supervision has shown great potential for audio-visual speech recognition by vastly reducing the amount of labeled data required to build good systems. However, existing methods are either not entirely end-to-end or do not train joint…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Jiachen Lian , Alexei Baevski , Wei-Ning Hsu , Michael Auli

Self-supervised learning of speech representations has achieved impressive results in improving automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper, we show that data selection is important for self-supervised learning. We propose a simple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Zhiyun Lu , Yongqiang Wang , Yu Zhang , Wei Han , Zhehuai Chen , Parisa Haghani

Self-supervised learning of speech representations has been a very active research area but most work is focused on a single domain such as read audio books for which there exist large quantities of labeled and unlabeled data. In this…

While the general idea of self-supervised learning is identical across modalities, the actual algorithms and objectives differ widely because they were developed with a single modality in mind. To get us closer to general self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Alexei Baevski , Wei-Ning Hsu , Qiantong Xu , Arun Babu , Jiatao Gu , Michael Auli

Predicting audio quality in voice synthesis and conversion systems is a critical yet challenging task, especially when traditional methods like Mean Opinion Scores (MOS) are cumbersome to collect at scale. This paper addresses the gap in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Aditya Ravuri , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi

Recent advances in unsupervised speech representation learning discover new approaches and provide new state-of-the-art for diverse types of speech processing tasks. This paper presents an investigation of using wav2vec 2.0 deep speech…

Learning music representations that are general-purpose offers the flexibility to finetune several downstream tasks using smaller datasets. The wav2vec 2.0 speech representation model showed promising results in many downstream speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Alessandro Ragano , Emmanouil Benetos , Andrew Hines

Cross-lingual self-supervised learning has been a growing research topic in the last few years. However, current works only explored the use of audio signals to create representations. In this work, we study cross-lingual self-supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Andreas Zinonos , Alexandros Haliassos , Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has made significant advances in speech representation learning. Models like wav2vec 2.0 and HuBERT have achieved state-of-the-art results in tasks such as speech recognition, particularly in monolingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 María Andrea Cruz Blandón , Zakaria Aldeneh , Jie Chi , Maureen de Seyssel

Pre-training for feature extraction is an increasingly studied approach to get better continuous representations of audio and text content. In the present work, we use wav2vec and camemBERT as self-supervised learned models to represent our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Manon Macary , Marie Tahon , Yannick Estève , Anthony Rousseau

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) foundation models have emerged as powerful, domain-agnostic, general-purpose feature extractors applicable to a wide range of tasks. Such models pre-trained on human speech have demonstrated high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Eklavya Sarkar , Mathew Magimai. -Doss

This work explores how self-supervised learning can be universally used to discover speaker-specific features towards enabling personalized speech enhancement models. We specifically address the few-shot learning scenario where access to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim

The deep learning community has witnessed an exponentially growing interest in self-supervised learning (SSL). However, it still remains unexplored how to build a framework for learning useful representations of raw music waveforms in a…

In recent years, self-supervised learning (SSL) models have made significant progress in audio deepfake detection (ADD) tasks. However, existing SSL models mainly rely on large-scale real speech for pre-training and lack the learning of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yunqi Hao , Yihao Chen , Minqiang Xu , Jianbo Zhan , Liang He , Lei Fang , Sian Fang , Lin Liu

Collecting speech data is an important step in training speech recognition systems and other speech-based machine learning models. However, the issue of privacy protection is an increasing concern that must be addressed. The current study…

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

Recent techniques for speech deepfake detection often rely on pre-trained self-supervised models. These systems, initially developed for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), have proved their ability to offer a meaningful representation of…

Self-supervised models for speech processing emerged recently as popular foundation blocks in speech processing pipelines. These models are pre-trained on unlabeled audio data and then used in speech processing downstream tasks such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Marcely Zanon Boito , Laurent Besacier , Natalia Tomashenko , Yannick Estève