Self-supervised language learning from raw audio: Lessons from the zero resource speech challenge

E Dunbar, N Hamilakis… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent progress in self-supervised or unsupervised machine learning has opened the
possibility of building a full speech processing system from raw audio without using any …

Modeling early phonetic acquisition from child-centered audio data

M Lavechin, M de Seyssel, M Métais, F Metze… - Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
Infants learn their native language (s) at an amazing speed. Before they even talk, their
perception adapts to the language (s) they hear. However, the mechanisms responsible for …

Evaluating context-invariance in unsupervised speech representations

M Hallap, E Dupoux, E Dunbar - arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.15775, 2022 - arxiv.org
Unsupervised speech representations have taken off, with benchmarks (SUPERB,
ZeroSpeech) demonstrating major progress on semi-supervised speech recognition, speech …

[PDF][PDF] Statistical learning models of early phonetic acquisition struggle with child-centered audio data

M Lavechin, M De Seyssel, M Métais, F Metze… - 2023 - files.osf.io
Infants learn their native language (s) at an amazing speed. Before they even talk, their
perception adapts to the language (s) they hear. However, the mechanisms responsible for …

Learning Semantic Information from Raw Audio Signal Using Both Contextual and Phonetic Representations

J Kim, I Hwang, K Lee - ICASSP 2024-2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a framework to learn semantics from raw audio signals using two types of
representations, encoding contextual and phonetic information respectively. Specifically, we …

[PDF][PDF] Artificial neural networks to analyze and simulate language acquisition in children

M Lavechin - PsyArXiv. October, 2023 - files.osf.io
Lightweight child-worn recorders that collect audio across an entire day allow for a big-data
approach to the study of language development. By collecting the child's production and …