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Hauptverfasser: Gundluru, Ramesh, Gupta, Shubham, K, Sri Rama Murty
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Gundluru, Ramesh
Gupta, Shubham
K, Sri Rama Murty
author_facet Gundluru, Ramesh
Gupta, Shubham
K, Sri Rama Murty
contents Acoustic Word Embeddings (AWEs) improve the efficiency of speech retrieval tasks such as Spoken Term Detection (STD) and Keyword Spotting (KWS). However, existing approaches suffer from limitations, including unimodal supervision, disjoint optimization of audio-audio and audio-text alignment, and the need for task-specific models. To address these shortcomings, we propose a joint multimodal contrastive learning framework that unifies both acoustic and cross-modal supervision in a shared embedding space. Our approach simultaneously optimizes: (i) audio-text contrastive learning, inspired by the CLAP loss, to align audio and text representations and (ii) audio-audio contrastive learning, via Deep Word Discrimination (DWD) loss, to enhance intra-class compactness and inter-class separation. The proposed method outperforms existing AWE baselines on word discrimination task while flexibly supporting both STD and KWS. To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive approach of its kind.
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spellingShingle Joint Multimodal Contrastive Learning for Robust Spoken Term Detection and Keyword Spotting
Gundluru, Ramesh
Gupta, Shubham
K, Sri Rama Murty
Sound
Machine Learning
Acoustic Word Embeddings (AWEs) improve the efficiency of speech retrieval tasks such as Spoken Term Detection (STD) and Keyword Spotting (KWS). However, existing approaches suffer from limitations, including unimodal supervision, disjoint optimization of audio-audio and audio-text alignment, and the need for task-specific models. To address these shortcomings, we propose a joint multimodal contrastive learning framework that unifies both acoustic and cross-modal supervision in a shared embedding space. Our approach simultaneously optimizes: (i) audio-text contrastive learning, inspired by the CLAP loss, to align audio and text representations and (ii) audio-audio contrastive learning, via Deep Word Discrimination (DWD) loss, to enhance intra-class compactness and inter-class separation. The proposed method outperforms existing AWE baselines on word discrimination task while flexibly supporting both STD and KWS. To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive approach of its kind.
title Joint Multimodal Contrastive Learning for Robust Spoken Term Detection and Keyword Spotting
topic Sound
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14115