Evidence of Vocal Tract Articulation in Self-Supervised Learning of Speech

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11723v3
• Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 03:12:13 GMT
• Title: Evidence of Vocal Tract Articulation in Self-Supervised Learning of Speech
• Authors: Cheol Jun Cho, Peter Wu, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Gopala K. Anumanchipalli
• Abstract summary: Recent self-supervised learning (SSL) models have proven to learn rich representations of speech. We conduct a comprehensive analysis to link speech representations to articulatory trajectories measured by electromagnetic articulography (EMA) Our findings suggest that SSL models learn to align closely with continuous articulations, and provide a novel insight into speech SSL.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent self-supervised learning (SSL) models have proven to learn rich representations of speech, which can readily be utilized by diverse downstream tasks. To understand such utilities, various analyses have been done for speech SSL models to reveal which and how information is encoded in the learned representations. Although the scope of previous analyses is extensive in acoustic, phonetic, and semantic perspectives, the physical grounding by speech production has not yet received full attention. To bridge this gap, we conduct a comprehensive analysis to link speech representations to articulatory trajectories measured by electromagnetic articulography (EMA). Our analysis is based on a linear probing approach where we measure articulatory score as an average correlation of linear mapping to EMA. We analyze a set of SSL models selected from the leaderboard of the SUPERB benchmark and perform further layer-wise analyses on two most successful models, Wav2Vec 2.0 and HuBERT. Surprisingly, representations from the recent speech SSL models are highly correlated with EMA traces (best: r = 0.81), and only 5 minutes are sufficient to train a linear model with high performance (r = 0.77). Our findings suggest that SSL models learn to align closely with continuous articulations, and provide a novel insight into speech SSL.

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