Refining Self-Supervised Learnt Speech Representation using Brain Activations

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Main Authors: Li, Hengyu, Mei, Kangdi, Liu, Zhaoci, Ai, Yang, Chen, Liping, Zhang, Jie, Ling, Zhenhua
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author Li, Hengyu
Mei, Kangdi
Liu, Zhaoci
Ai, Yang
Chen, Liping
Zhang, Jie
Ling, Zhenhua
author_facet Li, Hengyu
Mei, Kangdi
Liu, Zhaoci
Ai, Yang
Chen, Liping
Zhang, Jie
Ling, Zhenhua
contents It was shown in literature that speech representations extracted by self-supervised pre-trained models exhibit similarities with brain activations of human for speech perception and fine-tuning speech representation models on downstream tasks can further improve the similarity. However, it still remains unclear if this similarity can be used to optimize the pre-trained speech models. In this work, we therefore propose to use the brain activations recorded by fMRI to refine the often-used wav2vec2.0 model by aligning model representations toward human neural responses. Experimental results on SUPERB reveal that this operation is beneficial for several downstream tasks, e.g., speaker verification, automatic speech recognition, intent classification.One can then consider the proposed method as a new alternative to improve self-supervised speech models.
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spellingShingle Refining Self-Supervised Learnt Speech Representation using Brain Activations
Li, Hengyu
Mei, Kangdi
Liu, Zhaoci
Ai, Yang
Chen, Liping
Zhang, Jie
Ling, Zhenhua
Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
It was shown in literature that speech representations extracted by self-supervised pre-trained models exhibit similarities with brain activations of human for speech perception and fine-tuning speech representation models on downstream tasks can further improve the similarity. However, it still remains unclear if this similarity can be used to optimize the pre-trained speech models. In this work, we therefore propose to use the brain activations recorded by fMRI to refine the often-used wav2vec2.0 model by aligning model representations toward human neural responses. Experimental results on SUPERB reveal that this operation is beneficial for several downstream tasks, e.g., speaker verification, automatic speech recognition, intent classification.One can then consider the proposed method as a new alternative to improve self-supervised speech models.
title Refining Self-Supervised Learnt Speech Representation using Brain Activations
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08266