
UniSpeech-SAT
Overview
The UniSpeech-SAT model was proposed in UniSpeech-SAT: Universal Speech Representation Learning with Speaker Aware
Pre-Training by Sanyuan Chen, Yu Wu, Chengyi Wang, Zhengyang Chen, Zhuo Chen,
Shujie Liu, Jian Wu, Yao Qian, Furu Wei, Jinyu Li, Xiangzhan Yu .
The abstract from the paper is the following:
Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a long-standing goal for speech processing, since it utilizes large-scale unlabeled
data and avoids extensive human labeling. Recent years witness great successes in applying self-supervised learning in
speech recognition, while limited exploration was attempted in applying SSL for modeling speaker characteristics. In
this paper, we aim to improve the existing SSL framework for speaker representation learning. Two methods are
introduced for enhancing the unsupervised speaker information extraction. First, we apply the multi-task learning to
the current SSL framework, where we integrate the utterance-wise contrastive loss with the SSL objective function.
Second, for better speaker discrimination, we propose an utterance mixing strategy for data augmentation, where
additional overlapped utterances are created unsupervisedly and incorporate during training. We integrate the proposed
methods into the HuBERT framework. Experiment results on SUPERB benchmark show that the proposed system achieves
state-of-the-art performance in universal representation learning, especially for speaker identification oriented
tasks. An ablation study is performed verifying the efficacy of each proposed method. Finally, we scale up training
dataset to 94 thousand hours public audio data and achieve further performance improvement in all SUPERB tasks.
This model was contributed by patrickvonplaten. The Authors' code can be
found here.
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