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Hauptverfasser: Ullah, Asad, Ragano, Alessandro, Hines, Andrew
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2023
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12763
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  • Self-supervised representation learning (SSRL) has demonstrated superior performance than supervised models for tasks including phoneme recognition. Training SSRL models poses a challenge for low-resource languages where sufficient pre-training data may not be available. A common approach is cross-lingual pre-training. Instead, we propose to use audio augmentation techniques, namely: pitch variation, noise addition, accented target language and other language speech to pre-train SSRL models in a low resource condition and evaluate phoneme recognition. Our comparisons found that a combined synthetic augmentations (noise/pitch) strategy outperformed accent and language knowledge transfer. Furthermore, we examined the scaling factor of augmented data to achieve equivalent performance to model pre-trained with target domain speech. Our findings suggest that for resource-constrained languages, combined augmentations can be a viable option than other augmentations.