Learning Speech Representations from Raw Audio by Joint Audiovisual Self-Supervision

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04134v1
• Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 14:07:06 GMT
• Title: Learning Speech Representations from Raw Audio by Joint Audiovisual Self-Supervision
• Authors: Abhinav Shukla, Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic
• Abstract summary: We propose a method to learn self-supervised speech representations from the raw audio waveform. We train a raw audio encoder by combining audio-only self-supervision (by predicting informative audio attributes) with visual self-supervision (by generating talking faces from audio) Our results demonstrate the potential of multimodal self-supervision in audiovisual speech for learning good audio representations.
• Score: 63.564385139097624
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The intuitive interaction between the audio and visual modalities is valuable for cross-modal self-supervised learning. This concept has been demonstrated for generic audiovisual tasks like video action recognition and acoustic scene classification. However, self-supervision remains under-explored for audiovisual speech. We propose a method to learn self-supervised speech representations from the raw audio waveform. We train a raw audio encoder by combining audio-only self-supervision (by predicting informative audio attributes) with visual self-supervision (by generating talking faces from audio). The visual pretext task drives the audio representations to capture information related to lip movements. This enriches the audio encoder with visual information and the encoder can be used for evaluation without the visual modality. Our method attains competitive performance with respect to existing self-supervised audio features on established isolated word classification benchmarks, and significantly outperforms other methods at learning from fewer labels. Notably, our method also outperforms fully supervised training, thus providing a strong initialization for speech related tasks. Our results demonstrate the potential of multimodal self-supervision in audiovisual speech for learning good audio representations.

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