Abstract
Distributed representations, or embeddings, are commonly learned without supervision on very large unannotated corpora for natural language processing. In speech processing, deep network-based representations such as bottlenecks and x-vectors have had some success,but are limited to supervised or partly supervised settings where annotations are available and are not optimized to separate underlying factors. Here, we propose a generative model with deep encoders and decoders that can learn interpretable speech representations without supervision. Our inductive biases operate as prior distributions in a variational autoencoder model and allow us to separate several latent variables along a continuous range of time-scale properties, as opposed to binary oppositions or hierarchical factorization that have been previously proposed. On simulated data, we confirm that these biases enable the model to accurately recover phonetic and speaker underlying factors. On TIMIT and LibriSpeech, they yield representations that separate phonetic and speaker information, as evidenced by unsupervised results on downstream phoneme and speaker classification tasks using a simple k-means classifier.
Published Version
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callMore From: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
Disclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
