Self-Supervised Syllable Discovery Based on Speaker-Disentangled HuBERT

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Main Authors: Komatsu, Ryota, Shinozaki, Takahiro
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author Komatsu, Ryota
Shinozaki, Takahiro
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Shinozaki, Takahiro
contents Self-supervised speech representation learning has become essential for extracting meaningful features from untranscribed audio. Recent advances highlight the potential of deriving discrete symbols from the features correlated with linguistic units, which enables text-less training across diverse tasks. In particular, sentence-level Self-Distillation of the pretrained HuBERT (SD-HuBERT) induces syllabic structures within latent speech frame representations extracted from an intermediate Transformer layer. In SD-HuBERT, sentence-level representation is accumulated from speech frame features through self-attention layers using a special CLS token. However, we observe that the information aggregated in the CLS token correlates more with speaker identity than with linguistic content. To address this, we propose a speech-only self-supervised fine-tuning approach that separates syllabic units from speaker information. Our method introduces speaker perturbation as data augmentation and adopts a frame-level training objective to prevent the CLS token from aggregating paralinguistic information. Experimental results show that our approach surpasses the current state-of-the-art method in most syllable segmentation and syllabic unit quality metrics on Librispeech, underscoring its effectiveness in promoting syllabic organization within speech-only models.
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spellingShingle Self-Supervised Syllable Discovery Based on Speaker-Disentangled HuBERT
Komatsu, Ryota
Shinozaki, Takahiro
Computation and Language
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Self-supervised speech representation learning has become essential for extracting meaningful features from untranscribed audio. Recent advances highlight the potential of deriving discrete symbols from the features correlated with linguistic units, which enables text-less training across diverse tasks. In particular, sentence-level Self-Distillation of the pretrained HuBERT (SD-HuBERT) induces syllabic structures within latent speech frame representations extracted from an intermediate Transformer layer. In SD-HuBERT, sentence-level representation is accumulated from speech frame features through self-attention layers using a special CLS token. However, we observe that the information aggregated in the CLS token correlates more with speaker identity than with linguistic content. To address this, we propose a speech-only self-supervised fine-tuning approach that separates syllabic units from speaker information. Our method introduces speaker perturbation as data augmentation and adopts a frame-level training objective to prevent the CLS token from aggregating paralinguistic information. Experimental results show that our approach surpasses the current state-of-the-art method in most syllable segmentation and syllabic unit quality metrics on Librispeech, underscoring its effectiveness in promoting syllabic organization within speech-only models.
title Self-Supervised Syllable Discovery Based on Speaker-Disentangled HuBERT
topic Computation and Language
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10103