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Linguistically Informed Evaluation of Multilingual ASR for African Languages
Fei-Yueh Chen, Lateef Adeleke, C. M. Downey
Word Error Rate (WER) mischaracterizes ASR models' performance for African languages by combining phonological, tone, and other linguistic errors into a single lexical error. By co…
DM-Codec: Distilling Multimodal Representations for Speech Tokenization
Md Mubtasim Ahasan, Md Fahim, Tasnim Mohiuddin +6
Recent advancements in speech-language models have yielded significant improvements in speech tokenization and synthesis. However, effectively mapping the complex, multidimensional…
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…
EXPRESSO: A Benchmark and Analysis of Discrete Expressive Speech Resynthesis
Tu Anh Nguyen, Wei-Ning Hsu, Antony D'Avirro +10
Recent work has shown that it is possible to resynthesize high-quality speech based, not on text, but on low bitrate discrete units that have been learned in a self-supervised fash…
Scaling Speech Technology to 1,000+ Languages
Vineel Pratap, Andros Tjandra, Bowen Shi +13
Expanding the language coverage of speech technology has the potential to improve access to information for many more people. However, current speech technology is restricted to ab…
DinoSR: Self-Distillation and Online Clustering for Self-supervised Speech Representation Learning
Alexander H. Liu, Heng-Jui Chang, Michael Auli +2
In this paper, we introduce self-distillation and online clustering for self-supervised speech representation learning (DinoSR) which combines masked language modeling, self-distil…
Cocktail HuBERT: Generalized Self-Supervised Pre-training for Mixture and Single-Source Speech
Maryam Fazel-Zarandi, Wei-Ning Hsu
Self-supervised learning leverages unlabeled data effectively, improving label efficiency and generalization to domains without labeled data. While recent work has studied generali…
MuAViC: A Multilingual Audio-Visual Corpus for Robust Speech Recognition and Robust Speech-to-Text Translation
Mohamed Anwar, Bowen Shi, Vedanuj Goswami +3
We introduce MuAViC, a multilingual audio-visual corpus for robust speech recognition and robust speech-to-text translation providing 1200 hours of audio-visual speech in 9 languag…
Scaling Laws for Generative Mixed-Modal Language Models
Armen Aghajanyan, Lili Yu, Alexis Conneau +7
Generative language models define distributions over sequences of tokens that can represent essentially any combination of data modalities (e.g., any permutation of image tokens fr…
Speech-to-Speech Translation For A Real-world Unwritten Language
Peng-Jen Chen, Kevin Tran, Yilin Yang +13
We study speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) that translates speech from one language into another language and focuses on building systems to support languages without standard te…
Simple and Effective Unsupervised Speech Translation
Changhan Wang, Hirofumi Inaguma, Peng-Jen Chen +5
The amount of labeled data to train models for speech tasks is limited for most languages, however, the data scarcity is exacerbated for speech translation which requires labeled d…
STOP: A dataset for Spoken Task Oriented Semantic Parsing
Paden Tomasello, Akshat Shrivastava, Daniel Lazar +12
End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) predicts intent directly from audio using a single model. It promises to improve the performance of assistant systems by leveraging a…
u-HuBERT: Unified Mixed-Modal Speech Pretraining And Zero-Shot Transfer to Unlabeled Modality
Wei-Ning Hsu, Bowen Shi
While audio-visual speech models can yield superior performance and robustness compared to audio-only models, their development and adoption are hindered by the lack of labeled and…
Unified Speech-Text Pre-training for Speech Translation and Recognition
Yun Tang, Hongyu Gong, Ning Dong +8
We describe a method to jointly pre-train speech and text in an encoder-decoder modeling framework for speech translation and recognition. The proposed method incorporates four sel…
Enhanced Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation Using Self-supervised Pre-training and Data Augmentation
Sravya Popuri, Peng-Jen Chen, Changhan Wang +5
Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) models suffer from data scarcity issues as there exists little parallel S2ST data, compared to the amount of data available for conventio…
Towards End-to-end Unsupervised Speech Recognition
Alexander H. Liu, Wei-Ning Hsu, Michael Auli +1
Unsupervised speech recognition has shown great potential to make Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems accessible to every language. However, existing methods still heavily r…
Generative Spoken Dialogue Language Modeling
Tu Anh Nguyen, Eugene Kharitonov, Jade Copet +8
We introduce dGSLM, the first "textless" model able to generate audio samples of naturalistic spoken dialogues. It uses recent work on unsupervised spoken unit discovery coupled wi…
Measuring the Impact of Individual Domain Factors in Self-Supervised Pre-Training
Ramon Sanabria, Wei-Ning Hsu, Alexei Baevski +1
Human speech data comprises a rich set of domain factors such as accent, syntactic and semantic variety, or acoustic environment. Previous work explores the effect of domain mismat…
textless-lib: a Library for Textless Spoken Language Processing
Eugene Kharitonov, Jade Copet, Kushal Lakhotia +8
Textless spoken language processing research aims to extend the applicability of standard NLP toolset onto spoken language and languages with few or no textual resources. In this p…
Textless Speech-to-Speech Translation on Real Data
Ann Lee, Hongyu Gong, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne +8
We present a textless speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) system that can translate speech from one language into another language and can be built without the need of any text dat…
Textless Speech Emotion Conversion using Discrete and Decomposed Representations
Felix Kreuk, Adam Polyak, Jade Copet +7
Speech emotion conversion is the task of modifying the perceived emotion of a speech utterance while preserving the lexical content and speaker identity. In this study, we cast the…
Direct Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation with Variational Monotonic Multihead Attention
Xutai Ma, Hongyu Gong, Danni Liu +6
We present a direct simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (Simul-S2ST) model, Furthermore, the generation of translation is independent from intermediate text representations.…
Text-Free Prosody-Aware Generative Spoken Language Modeling
Eugene Kharitonov, Ann Lee, Adam Polyak +8
Speech pre-training has primarily demonstrated efficacy on classification tasks, while its capability of generating novel speech, similar to how GPT-2 can generate coherent paragra…
Direct speech-to-speech translation with discrete units
Ann Lee, Peng-Jen Chen, Changhan Wang +9
We present a direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) model that translates speech from one language to speech in another language without relying on intermediate text generation…