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wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations

2020-06-20NeurIPS 2020Code Available3· sign in to hype

Alexei Baevski, Henry Zhou, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Michael Auli

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We show for the first time that learning powerful representations from speech audio alone followed by fine-tuning on transcribed speech can outperform the best semi-supervised methods while being conceptually simpler. wav2vec 2.0 masks the speech input in the latent space and solves a contrastive task defined over a quantization of the latent representations which are jointly learned. Experiments using all labeled data of Librispeech achieve 1.8/3.3 WER on the clean/other test sets. When lowering the amount of labeled data to one hour, wav2vec 2.0 outperforms the previous state of the art on the 100 hour subset while using 100 times less labeled data. Using just ten minutes of labeled data and pre-training on 53k hours of unlabeled data still achieves 4.8/8.2 WER. This demonstrates the feasibility of speech recognition with limited amounts of labeled data.

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DatasetModelMetricClaimedVerifiedStatus
Libri-Light test-cleanwav2vec 2.0 Large-10h-LV-60kWord Error Rate (WER)2.5Unverified
Libri-Light test-otherwav2vec 2.0 Large-10h-LV-60kWord Error Rate (WER)5Unverified
LibriSpeech test-cleanwav2vec 2.0 with Libri-LightWord Error Rate (WER)1.8Unverified
LibriSpeech test-otherwav2vec 2.0 with Libri-LightWord Error Rate (WER)3Unverified
LibriSpeech test-otherwav2vec 2.0Word Error Rate (WER)4.1Unverified
TIMITwav2vec 2.0Percentage error8.3Unverified

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