JOOCI: a Framework for Learning Comprehensive Speech Representations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11086v2
• Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:23:12 GMT
• Title: JOOCI: a Framework for Learning Comprehensive Speech Representations
• Authors: Hemant Yadav, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Sunayana Sitaram,
• Abstract summary: We present an end-to-end speech representation learning framework designed to jointly optimize the other and content information in speech. Our results show that JOOCI consistently outperforms other SOTA models of similar size.
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• Abstract: Information in speech can be divided into two categories: what is being said (content) and how it is expressed (other). Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) techniques model speech at fixed segments, usually 10-25 ms, using a single embedding. Given the orthogonal nature of other and content information, attempting to optimize both within a single embedding results in suboptimal solutions. This approach divides the models capacity, limiting its ability to build complex hierarchical features effectively. In this work, we present an end-to-end speech representation learning framework designed to jointly optimize the other and content information (JOOCI) in speech. By using separate learnable parameters, JOOCI addresses this optimization challenge by modeling other and content information independently. Our results show that JOOCI consistently outperforms other SOTA models of similar size (100 million parameters) and pre-training data used (960 hours) by a significant margin when evaluated on a range of speech downstream tasks in the SUPERB benchmark, as shown in Table 1.

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