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Targeted Linguistic Analysis of Sign Language Models with Minimal Translation Pairs
Serpil Karabüklü, Kanishka Misra, Shester Gueuwou +3
Models of sign language have historically lagged behind those for spoken language (text and speech). Recent work has greatly improved their performance on tasks like sign language…
On The Landscape of Spoken Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey
Siddhant Arora, Kai-Wei Chang, Chung-Ming Chien +7
The field of spoken language processing is undergoing a shift from training custom-built, task-specific models toward using and optimizing spoken language models (SLMs) which act a…
CTC-DRO: Robust Optimization for Reducing Language Disparities in Speech Recognition
Martijn Bartelds, Ananjan Nandi, Moussa Koulako Bala Doumbouya +3
Modern deep learning models often achieve high overall performance, but consistently fail on specific subgroups. Group distributionally robust optimization (group DRO) addresses th…
SHuBERT: Self-Supervised Sign Language Representation Learning via Multi-Stream Cluster Prediction
Shester Gueuwou, Xiaodan Du, Greg Shakhnarovich +2
Sign language processing has traditionally relied on task-specific models, limiting the potential for transfer learning across tasks. Pre-training methods for sign language have ty…
Dynamic-SUPERB Phase-2: A Collaboratively Expanding Benchmark for Measuring the Capabilities of Spoken Language Models with 180 Tasks
Chien-yu Huang, Wei-Chih Chen, Shu-wen Yang +77
Multimodal foundation models, such as Gemini and ChatGPT, have revolutionized human-machine interactions by seamlessly integrating various forms of data. Developing a universal spo…
Speech Recognition for Analysis of Police Radio Communication
Tejes Srivastava, Ju-Chieh Chou, Priyank Shroff +2
Police departments around the world use two-way radio for coordination. These broadcast police communications (BPC) are a unique source of information about everyday police activit…
Towards Robust Speech Representation Learning for Thousands of Languages
William Chen, Wangyou Zhang, Yifan Peng +7
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has helped extend speech technologies to more languages by reducing the need for labeled data. However, models are still far from supporting the worl…
On the Evaluation of Speech Foundation Models for Spoken Language Understanding
Siddhant Arora, Ankita Pasad, Chung-Ming Chien +9
The Spoken Language Understanding Evaluation (SLUE) suite of benchmark tasks was recently introduced to address the need for open resources and benchmarking of complex spoken langu…
DiscreteSLU: A Large Language Model with Self-Supervised Discrete Speech Units for Spoken Language Understanding
Suwon Shon, Kwangyoun Kim, Yi-Te Hsu +3
The integration of pre-trained text-based large language models (LLM) with speech input has enabled instruction-following capabilities for diverse speech tasks. This integration re…
On the Effects of Heterogeneous Data Sources on Speech-to-Text Foundation Models
Jinchuan Tian, Yifan Peng, William Chen +3
The Open Whisper-style Speech Model (OWSM) series was introduced to achieve full transparency in building advanced speech-to-text (S2T) foundation models. To this end, OWSM models…
ML-SUPERB 2.0: Benchmarking Multilingual Speech Models Across Modeling Constraints, Languages, and Datasets
Jiatong Shi, Shih-Heng Wang, William Chen +8
ML-SUPERB evaluates self-supervised learning (SSL) models on the tasks of language identification and automatic speech recognition (ASR). This benchmark treats the models as featur…
Self-Supervised Speech Representations are More Phonetic than Semantic
Kwanghee Choi, Ankita Pasad, Tomohiko Nakamura +3
Self-supervised speech models (S3Ms) have become an effective backbone for speech applications. Various analyses suggest that S3Ms encode linguistic properties. In this work, we se…
SignMusketeers: An Efficient Multi-Stream Approach for Sign Language Translation at Scale
Shester Gueuwou, Xiaodan Du, Greg Shakhnarovich +1
A persistent challenge in sign language video processing, including the task of sign to written language translation, is how we learn representations of sign language in an effecti…
Structured Tree Alignment for Evaluation of (Speech) Constituency Parsing
Freda Shi, Kevin Gimpel, Karen Livescu
We present the structured average intersection-over-union ratio (STRUCT-IOU), a similarity metric between constituency parse trees motivated by the problem of evaluating speech par…
Generative Context-aware Fine-tuning of Self-supervised Speech Models
Suwon Shon, Kwangyoun Kim, Prashant Sridhar +3
When performing tasks like automatic speech recognition or spoken language understanding for a given utterance, access to preceding text or audio provides contextual information ca…
Toward Joint Language Modeling for Speech Units and Text
Ju-Chieh Chou, Chung-Ming Chien, Wei-Ning Hsu +5
Speech and text are two major forms of human language. The research community has been focusing on mapping speech to text or vice versa for many years. However, in the field of lan…
Audio-Visual Neural Syntax Acquisition
Cheng-I Jeff Lai, Freda Shi, Puyuan Peng +10
We study phrase structure induction from visually-grounded speech. The core idea is to first segment the speech waveform into sequences of word segments, and subsequently induce ph…
Few-Shot Spoken Language Understanding via Joint Speech-Text Models
Chung-Ming Chien, Mingjiamei Zhang, Ju-Chieh Chou +1
Recent work on speech representation models jointly pre-trained with text has demonstrated the potential of improving speech representations by encoding speech and text in a shared…
UniverSLU: Universal Spoken Language Understanding for Diverse Tasks with Natural Language Instructions
Siddhant Arora, Hayato Futami, Jee-weon Jung +6
Recent studies leverage large language models with multi-tasking capabilities, using natural language prompts to guide the model's behavior and surpassing performance of task-speci…
Self-Supervised Video Transformers for Isolated Sign Language Recognition
Marcelo Sandoval-Castaneda, Yanhong Li, Diane Brentari +2
This paper presents an in-depth analysis of various self-supervision methods for isolated sign language recognition (ISLR). We consider four recently introduced transformer-based a…
AV2Wav: Diffusion-Based Re-synthesis from Continuous Self-supervised Features for Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement
Ju-Chieh Chou, Chung-Ming Chien, Karen Livescu
Speech enhancement systems are typically trained using pairs of clean and noisy speech. In audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE), there is not as much ground-truth clean data avai…
What Do Self-Supervised Speech Models Know About Words?
Ankita Pasad, Chung-Ming Chien, Shane Settle +1
Many self-supervised speech models (S3Ms) have been introduced over the last few years, improving performance and data efficiency on various speech tasks. However, these empirical…
SLUE Phase-2: A Benchmark Suite of Diverse Spoken Language Understanding Tasks
Suwon Shon, Siddhant Arora, Chyi-Jiunn Lin +7
Spoken language understanding (SLU) tasks have been studied for many decades in the speech research community, but have not received as much attention as lower-level tasks like spe…
Context-aware Fine-tuning of Self-supervised Speech Models
Suwon Shon, Felix Wu, Kwangyoun Kim +3
Self-supervised pre-trained transformers have improved the state of the art on a variety of speech tasks. Due to the quadratic time and space complexity of self-attention, they usu…