Title
Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning: A Review
Abstract
Although supervised deep learning has revolutionized speech and audio processing, it has necessitated the building of specialist models for individual tasks and application scenarios. It is likewise difficult to apply this to dialects and languages for which only limited labeled data is available. Self-supervised representation learning methods promise a single universal model that would benefit a wide variety of tasks and domains. Such methods have shown success in natural language processing and computer vision domains, achieving new levels of performance while reducing the number of labels required for many downstream scenarios. Speech representation learning is experiencing similar progress in three main categories: generative, contrastive, and predictive methods. Other approaches rely on multi-modal data for pre-training, mixing text or visual data streams with speech. Although self-supervised speech representation is still a nascent research area, it is closely related to acoustic word embedding and learning with zero lexical resources, both of which have seen active research for many years. This review presents approaches for self-supervised speech representation learning and their connection to other research areas. Since many current methods focus solely on automatic speech recognition as a downstream task, we review recent efforts on benchmarking learned representations to extend the application beyond speech recognition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/JSTSP.2022.3207050
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Self-supervised learning,speech representations
Journal
16
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1932-4553
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
94
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abdel-rahman Mohamed13772266.13
Hung-Yi Lee221745.30
Lasse Borgholt312.38
Jakob D. Havtorn400.34
Joakim Edin500.34
Christian Igel600.68
Katrin Kirchhoff7102695.24
Shang-Wen Li8152.71
Karen Livescu9125471.43
Lars Maaloe10939.26
Tara N. Sainath113497232.43
Shinji Watanabe121158139.38