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Main Authors: Chen, Maximillian, Yu, Zhou
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12921
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  • Speech models have long been known to overfit individual speakers for many classification tasks. This leads to poor generalization in settings where the speakers are out-of-domain or out-of-distribution, as is common in production environments. We view speaker adaptation as a few-shot learning problem and propose investigating transfer learning approaches inspired by recent success with pre-trained models in natural language tasks. We propose pre-finetuning speech models on difficult tasks to distill knowledge into few-shot downstream classification objectives. We pre-finetune Wav2Vec2.0 on every permutation of four multiclass emotional speech recognition corpora and evaluate our pre-finetuned models through 33,600 few-shot fine-tuning trials on the Emotional Speech Dataset.