SPEECH & AUDIO

DinoSR: Self-Distillation and Online Clustering for Self-supervised Speech Representation Learning

October 22, 2023

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce self-distillation and online clustering for self-supervised speech representation learning (DinoSR) which combines masked language modeling, self-distillation, and online clustering. We show that these concepts complement each other and result in a strong representation learning model for speech. DinoSR first extracts contextualized embeddings from the input audio with a teacher network, then runs an online clustering system on the embeddings to yield a machine-discovered phone inventory, and finally uses the discretized tokens to guide a student network. We show that DinoSR surpasses previous state-of-the-art performance in several downstream tasks, and provide a detailed analysis of the model and the learned discrete units.

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AUTHORS

Written by

Wei-Ning Hsu

Michael Auli

Alexander Liu

Heng-Jui Chang

James Glass

Publisher

NeurIPS

Research Topics

Speech & Audio

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