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Neural codecs have become crucial to recent speech and audio generation research. In addition to signal compression capabilities, discrete codecs have also been found to enhance downstream training efficiency and compatibility with…

In this paper, we propose a personalized neural speech codec, envisioning that personalization can reduce the model complexity or improve perceptual speech quality. Despite the common usage of speech codecs where only a single talker is…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Inseon Jang , Haici Yang , Wootaek Lim , Seungkwon Beack , Minje Kim

Self-supervised pre-training paradigms have been extensively explored in the field of skeleton-based action recognition. In particular, methods based on masked prediction have pushed the performance of pre-training to a new height. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Ruizhuo Xu , Linzhi Huang , Mei Wang , Jiani Hu , Weihong Deng

Recent advances in self-supervised learning through contrastive training have shown that it is possible to learn a competitive speech recognition system with as little as 10 minutes of labeled data. However, these systems are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Lasse Borgholt , Tycho Max Sylvester Tax , Jakob Drachmann Havtorn , Lars Maaløe , Christian Igel

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…

While Word2Vec represents words (in text) as vectors carrying semantic information, audio Word2Vec was shown to be able to represent signal segments of spoken words as vectors carrying phonetic structure information. Audio Word2Vec can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Yu-Hsuan Wang , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

The popular frameworks for self-supervised learning of speech representations have largely focused on frame-level masked prediction of speech regions. While this has shown promising downstream task performance for speech recognition and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Varun Krishna , Sriram Ganapathy

Neural speech codecs have gained great attention for their outstanding reconstruction with discrete token representations. It is a crucial component in generative tasks such as speech coding and large language models (LLM). However, most…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Youqiang Zheng , Weiping Tu , Yueteng Kang , Jie Chen , Yike Zhang , Li Xiao , Yuhong Yang , Long Ma

Neural audio codecs (NACs), which use neural networks to generate compact audio representations, have garnered interest for their applicability to many downstream tasks -- especially quantized codecs due to their compatibility with large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Ryo Aihara , Yoshiki Masuyama , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Jonathan Le Roux

Speech representation learning with self-supervised algorithms has resulted in notable performance boosts in many downstream tasks. Recent work combined self-supervised learning (SSL) and visually grounded speech (VGS) processing mechanisms…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-08 Khazar Khorrami , María Andrea Cruz Blandón , Tuomas Virtanen , Okko Räsänen

Latent representation learning has been an active field of study for decades in numerous applications. Inspired among others by the tokenization from Natural Language Processing and motivated by the research of a simple data representation,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Benoît Giniès , Xiaoyu Bie , Olivier Fercoq , Gaël Richard

Self-supervised pre-training has been successful in both text and speech processing. Speech and text offer different but complementary information. The question is whether we are able to perform a speech-text joint pre-training on unpaired…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Xianghu Yue , Junyi Ao , Xiaoxue Gao , Haizhou Li

Recent advancements in Neural Audio Codec (NAC) models have inspired their use in various speech processing tasks, including speech enhancement (SE). In this work, we propose a novel, efficient SE approach by leveraging the pre-quantization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Haoyang Li , Jia Qi Yip , Tianyu Fan , Eng Siong Chng

Neural speech coding is a rapidly developing topic, where state-of-the-art approaches now exhibit superior compression performance than conventional methods. Despite significant progress, existing methods still have limitations in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Youqiang Zheng , Weiping Tu , Li Xiao , Xinmeng Xu

Neural audio codecs, neural networks which compress a waveform into discrete tokens, play a crucial role in the recent development of audio generative models. State-of-the-art codecs rely on the end-to-end training of an autoencoder and a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zineb Lahrichi , Gaëtan Hadjeres , Gael Richard , Geoffroy Peeters

Wav2vec2.0 is a popular self-supervised pre-training framework for learning speech representations in the context of automatic speech recognition (ASR). It was shown that wav2vec2.0 has a good robustness against the domain shift, while the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Qiu-Shi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Zi-Qiang Zhang , Ming-Hui Wu , Xin Fang , Li-Rong Dai

Self supervised representation learning has recently attracted a lot of research interest for both the audio and visual modalities. However, most works typically focus on a particular modality or feature alone and there has been very…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Abhinav Shukla , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Self-supervised speech representations have been shown to be effective in a variety of speech applications. However, existing representation learning methods generally rely on the autoregressive model and/or observed global dependencies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Alexander H. Liu , Yu-An Chung , James Glass

We introduce Wav2Seq, the first self-supervised approach to pre-train both parts of encoder-decoder models for speech data. We induce a pseudo language as a compact discrete representation, and formulate a self-supervised pseudo speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Felix Wu , Kwangyoun Kim , Shinji Watanabe , Kyu Han , Ryan McDonald , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Yoav Artzi

Recently proposed self-supervised learning approaches have been successful for pre-training speech representation models. The utility of these learned representations has been observed empirically, but not much has been studied about the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Ankita Pasad , Ju-Chieh Chou , Karen Livescu