Establishing degrees of closeness between audio recordings along different dimensions using large-scale cross-lingual models
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| author | Fily, Maxime Wisniewski, Guillaume Guillaume, Severine Adda, Gilles Michaud, Alexis |
| author_facet | Fily, Maxime Wisniewski, Guillaume Guillaume, Severine Adda, Gilles Michaud, Alexis |
| contents | In the highly constrained context of low-resource language studies, we explore vector representations of speech from a pretrained model to determine their level of abstraction with regard to the audio signal. We propose a new unsupervised method using ABX tests on audio recordings with carefully curated metadata to shed light on the type of information present in the representations. ABX tests determine whether the representations computed by a multilingual speech model encode a given characteristic. Three experiments are devised: one on room acoustics aspects, one on linguistic genre, and one on phonetic aspects. The results confirm that the representations extracted from recordings with different linguistic/extra-linguistic characteristics differ along the same lines. Embedding more audio signal in one vector better discriminates extra-linguistic characteristics, whereas shorter snippets are better to distinguish segmental information. The method is fully unsupervised, potentially opening new research avenues for comparative work on under-documented languages. |
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| spellingShingle | Establishing degrees of closeness between audio recordings along different dimensions using large-scale cross-lingual models Fily, Maxime Wisniewski, Guillaume Guillaume, Severine Adda, Gilles Michaud, Alexis Computation and Language Sound Audio and Speech Processing In the highly constrained context of low-resource language studies, we explore vector representations of speech from a pretrained model to determine their level of abstraction with regard to the audio signal. We propose a new unsupervised method using ABX tests on audio recordings with carefully curated metadata to shed light on the type of information present in the representations. ABX tests determine whether the representations computed by a multilingual speech model encode a given characteristic. Three experiments are devised: one on room acoustics aspects, one on linguistic genre, and one on phonetic aspects. The results confirm that the representations extracted from recordings with different linguistic/extra-linguistic characteristics differ along the same lines. Embedding more audio signal in one vector better discriminates extra-linguistic characteristics, whereas shorter snippets are better to distinguish segmental information. The method is fully unsupervised, potentially opening new research avenues for comparative work on under-documented languages. |
| title | Establishing degrees of closeness between audio recordings along different dimensions using large-scale cross-lingual models |
| topic | Computation and Language Sound Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05581 |