A Whisper transformer for audio captioning trained with synthetic captions and transfer learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09690v1
• Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 22:20:07 GMT
• Title: A Whisper transformer for audio captioning trained with synthetic captions and transfer learning
• Authors: Marek Kadl\v{c}\'ik, Adam H\'ajek, J\"urgen Kieslich, Rados{\l}aw Winiecki
• Abstract summary: We present our approach to audio captioning, focusing on the use of a pretrained speech-to-text Whisper model and pretraining on synthetic captions. Our findings demonstrate the impact of different training strategies on the performance of the audio captioning model.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The field of audio captioning has seen significant advancements in recent years, driven by the availability of large-scale audio datasets and advancements in deep learning techniques. In this technical report, we present our approach to audio captioning, focusing on the use of a pretrained speech-to-text Whisper model and pretraining on synthetic captions. We discuss our training procedures and present our experiments' results, which include model size variations, dataset mixtures, and other hyperparameters. Our findings demonstrate the impact of different training strategies on the performance of the audio captioning model. Our code and trained models are publicly available on GitHub and Hugging Face Hub.

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