Speech Representation Learning Revisited: The Necessity of Separate Learnable Parameters and Robust Data Augmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10557v1
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 05:45:04 GMT
• Title: Speech Representation Learning Revisited: The Necessity of Separate Learnable Parameters and Robust Data Augmentation
• Authors: Hemant Yadav, Sunayana Sitaram, Rajiv Ratn Shah,
• Abstract summary: We conduct a preliminary study to understand the importance of modeling other information using separate learnable parameters. Our findings are twofold: first, the O-HuBERT method is able to utilize all layers to build complex features to encode other information; second, a robust data augmentation strategy is essential for learning the information required by tasks that depend on other information.
• Score: 43.479279052047985
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Speech modeling methods learn one embedding for a fixed segment of speech, typically in between 10-25 ms. The information present in speech can be divided into two categories: "what is being said" (content) and "how it is expressed" (other) and these two are orthogonal in nature causing the optimization algorithm to find a sub-optimal solution if forced to optimize together. This leads to sub-optimal performance in one or all downstream tasks as shown by previous studies. Current self-supervised learning (SSL) methods such as HuBERT are very good at modeling the content information present in speech. Data augmentation improves the performance on tasks which require effective modeling of other information but this leads to a divided capacity of the model. In this work, we conduct a preliminary study to understand the importance of modeling other information using separate learnable parameters. We propose a modified version of HuBERT, termed Other HuBERT (O-HuBERT), to test our hypothesis. Our findings are twofold: first, the O-HuBERT method is able to utilize all layers to build complex features to encode other information; second, a robust data augmentation strategy is essential for learning the information required by tasks that depend on other information and to achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on the SUPERB benchmark with a similarly sized model (100 million parameters) and pre-training data (960 hours).

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