Geolocation-Aware Robust Spoken Language Identification

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Autori principali: Wang, Qingzheng, Shim, Hye-jin, Sun, Jiancheng, Watanabe, Shinji
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author Wang, Qingzheng
Shim, Hye-jin
Sun, Jiancheng
Watanabe, Shinji
author_facet Wang, Qingzheng
Shim, Hye-jin
Sun, Jiancheng
Watanabe, Shinji
contents While Self-supervised Learning (SSL) has significantly improved Spoken Language Identification (LID), existing models often struggle to consistently classify dialects and accents of the same language as a unified class. To address this challenge, we propose geolocation-aware LID, a novel approach that incorporates language-level geolocation information into the SSL-based LID model. Specifically, we introduce geolocation prediction as an auxiliary task and inject the predicted vectors into intermediate representations as conditioning signals. This explicit conditioning encourages the model to learn more unified representations for dialectal and accented variations. Experiments across six multilingual datasets demonstrate that our approach improves robustness to intra-language variations and unseen domains, achieving new state-of-the-art accuracy on FLEURS (97.7%) and 9.7% relative improvement on ML-SUPERB 2.0 dialect set.
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spellingShingle Geolocation-Aware Robust Spoken Language Identification
Wang, Qingzheng
Shim, Hye-jin
Sun, Jiancheng
Watanabe, Shinji
Computation and Language
Sound
While Self-supervised Learning (SSL) has significantly improved Spoken Language Identification (LID), existing models often struggle to consistently classify dialects and accents of the same language as a unified class. To address this challenge, we propose geolocation-aware LID, a novel approach that incorporates language-level geolocation information into the SSL-based LID model. Specifically, we introduce geolocation prediction as an auxiliary task and inject the predicted vectors into intermediate representations as conditioning signals. This explicit conditioning encourages the model to learn more unified representations for dialectal and accented variations. Experiments across six multilingual datasets demonstrate that our approach improves robustness to intra-language variations and unseen domains, achieving new state-of-the-art accuracy on FLEURS (97.7%) and 9.7% relative improvement on ML-SUPERB 2.0 dialect set.
title Geolocation-Aware Robust Spoken Language Identification
topic Computation and Language
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17148