MT-HuBERT: Self-Supervised Mix-Training for Few-Shot Keyword Spotting in Mixed Speech

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Auteurs principaux: Yuan, Junming, Shi, Ying, Wang, Dong, Li, Lantian, Hamdulla, Askar
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author Yuan, Junming
Shi, Ying
Wang, Dong
Li, Lantian
Hamdulla, Askar
author_facet Yuan, Junming
Shi, Ying
Wang, Dong
Li, Lantian
Hamdulla, Askar
contents Few-shot keyword spotting aims to detect previously unseen keywords with very limited labeled samples. A pre-training and adaptation paradigm is typically adopted for this task. While effective in clean conditions, most existing approaches struggle with mixed keyword spotting--detecting multiple overlapping keywords within a single utterance--a capability essential for real-world applications. We have previously proposed a pre-training approach based on Mix-Training (MT) to tackle the mixed keyword detection problem and demonstrated its efficiency. However, this approach is fully supervised, unable to utilize vast unlabeled data. To this end, we propose Mix-Training HuBERT (MT-HuBERT), a self-supervised learning (SSL) pre-training framework that implements the MT criterion during pre-training. MT-HuBERT predicts, in a self-supervised manner, the clean acoustic units of each constituent signal from contextual cues, in contrast to predicting compositional patterns of mixed speech. Experiments conducted on the Google Speech Commands (GSC v2) corpus demonstrate that our proposed MT-HuBERT consistently outperforms several state-of-the-art baselines in few-shot KWS tasks under both mixed and clean conditions.
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spellingShingle MT-HuBERT: Self-Supervised Mix-Training for Few-Shot Keyword Spotting in Mixed Speech
Yuan, Junming
Shi, Ying
Wang, Dong
Li, Lantian
Hamdulla, Askar
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Few-shot keyword spotting aims to detect previously unseen keywords with very limited labeled samples. A pre-training and adaptation paradigm is typically adopted for this task. While effective in clean conditions, most existing approaches struggle with mixed keyword spotting--detecting multiple overlapping keywords within a single utterance--a capability essential for real-world applications. We have previously proposed a pre-training approach based on Mix-Training (MT) to tackle the mixed keyword detection problem and demonstrated its efficiency. However, this approach is fully supervised, unable to utilize vast unlabeled data. To this end, we propose Mix-Training HuBERT (MT-HuBERT), a self-supervised learning (SSL) pre-training framework that implements the MT criterion during pre-training. MT-HuBERT predicts, in a self-supervised manner, the clean acoustic units of each constituent signal from contextual cues, in contrast to predicting compositional patterns of mixed speech. Experiments conducted on the Google Speech Commands (GSC v2) corpus demonstrate that our proposed MT-HuBERT consistently outperforms several state-of-the-art baselines in few-shot KWS tasks under both mixed and clean conditions.
title MT-HuBERT: Self-Supervised Mix-Training for Few-Shot Keyword Spotting in Mixed Speech
topic Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06296