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In this study, we propose to investigate triplet loss for the purpose of an alternative feature representation for ASR. We consider a general non-semantic speech representation, which is trained with a self-supervised criteria based on triplet loss called TRILL, for acoustic modeling to represent the acoustic characteristics of each audio. This strategy is then applied to the CHiME-4 corpus and CRSS-UTDallas Fearless Steps Corpus, with emphasis on the 100-hour challenge corpus which consists of 5 selected NASA Apollo-11 channels. An analysis of the extracted embeddings provides the foundation needed to characterize training utterances into distinct groups based on acoustic distinguishing properties. Moreover, we also demonstrate that triplet-loss based embedding performs better than i-Vector in acoustic modeling, confirming that the triplet loss is more effective than a speaker feature. With additional techniques such as pronunciation and silence probability modeling, plus multi-style training, we achieve a +5.42% and +3.18% relative WER improvement for the development and evaluation sets of the Fearless Steps Corpus. To explore generalization, we further test the same technique on the 1 channel track of CHiME-4 and observe a +11.90% relative WER improvement for real test data.
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FeaRLESS: Feature Refinement Loss for Ensembling Self-Supervised Learning Features in Robust End-to-end Speech Recognition
Self-supervised learning representations (SSLR) have resulted in robust features for downstream tasks in many fields. Recently, several SSLRs have shown promising results on automatic speech recognition (ASR) benchmark corpora. However, previous studies have only shown performance for solitary SSLRs as an input feature for ASR models. In this study, we propose to investigate the effectiveness of diverse SSLR combinations using various fusion methods within end-to-end (E2E) ASR models. In addition, we will show there are correlations between these extracted SSLRs. As such, we further propose a feature refinement loss for decorrelation to efficiently combine the set of input features. For evaluation, we show that the proposed “FeaRLESS learning features” perform better than systems without the proposed feature refinement loss for both the WSJ and Fearless Steps Challenge (FSC) corpora.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2016725
- PAR ID:
- 10402503
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- ISCA INTERSPEECH-2022
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 3058 to 3062
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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Accepted Manuscript1.0
- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10917
