Residual Speech Embeddings for Tone Classification: Removing Linguistic Content to Enhance Paralinguistic Analysis
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| author | Ahbabi, Hamdan Al Marti, Gautier AlMarri, Saeed Elfadel, Ibrahim |
| author_facet | Ahbabi, Hamdan Al Marti, Gautier AlMarri, Saeed Elfadel, Ibrahim |
| contents | Self-supervised learning models for speech processing, such as wav2vec2, HuBERT, WavLM, and Whisper, generate embeddings that capture both linguistic and paralinguistic information, making it challenging to analyze tone independently of spoken content. In this work, we introduce a method for disentangling paralinguistic features from linguistic content by regressing speech embeddings onto their corresponding text embeddings and using the residuals as a representation of vocal tone. We evaluate this approach across multiple self-supervised speech embeddings, demonstrating that residual embeddings significantly improve tone classification performance compared to raw speech embeddings. Our results show that this method enhances linear separability, enabling improved classification even with simple models such as logistic regression. Visualization of the residual embeddings further confirms the successful removal of linguistic information while preserving tone-related features. These findings highlight the potential of residual embeddings for applications in sentiment analysis, speaker characterization, and paralinguistic speech processing. |
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| spellingShingle | Residual Speech Embeddings for Tone Classification: Removing Linguistic Content to Enhance Paralinguistic Analysis Ahbabi, Hamdan Al Marti, Gautier AlMarri, Saeed Elfadel, Ibrahim Machine Learning Computation and Language Self-supervised learning models for speech processing, such as wav2vec2, HuBERT, WavLM, and Whisper, generate embeddings that capture both linguistic and paralinguistic information, making it challenging to analyze tone independently of spoken content. In this work, we introduce a method for disentangling paralinguistic features from linguistic content by regressing speech embeddings onto their corresponding text embeddings and using the residuals as a representation of vocal tone. We evaluate this approach across multiple self-supervised speech embeddings, demonstrating that residual embeddings significantly improve tone classification performance compared to raw speech embeddings. Our results show that this method enhances linear separability, enabling improved classification even with simple models such as logistic regression. Visualization of the residual embeddings further confirms the successful removal of linguistic information while preserving tone-related features. These findings highlight the potential of residual embeddings for applications in sentiment analysis, speaker characterization, and paralinguistic speech processing. |
| title | Residual Speech Embeddings for Tone Classification: Removing Linguistic Content to Enhance Paralinguistic Analysis |
| topic | Machine Learning Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19387 |