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Improving Label-Deficient Keyword Spotting Through Self-Supervised Pretraining

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Holger Severin Bovbjerg, Zheng-Hua Tan

Sound · Submitted 4 Oct 2022

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The authors' main claim This paper explores the effectiveness of SSL on small models for KWS and establishes that SSL can enhance the performance of small KWS models when labelled data is scarce.

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CitationHolger Severin Bovbjerg, Zheng-Hua Tan. "Improving Label-Deficient Keyword Spotting Through Self-Supervised Pretraining." arXiv:2210.01703 (2022). https://pith.science/paper/VVWHOMAU
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Keyword Spotting (KWS) models are becoming increasingly integrated into various systems, e.g. voice assistants. To achieve satisfactory performance, these models typically rely on a large amount of labelled data, limiting their applications only to situations where such data is available. Self-supervised Learning (SSL) methods can mitigate such a reliance by leveraging readily-available unlabelled data. Most SSL methods for speech have primarily been studied for large models, whereas this is not ideal, as compact KWS models are generally required. This paper explores the effectiveness of SSL on small models for KWS and establishes that SSL can enhance the performance of small KWS models when labelled data is scarce. We pretrain three compact transformer-based KWS models using Data2Vec, and fine-tune them on a label-deficient setup of the Google Speech Commands data set. It is found that Data2Vec pretraining leads to a significant increase in accuracy, with label-deficient scenarios showing an improvement of 8.22% 11.18% absolute accuracy.

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s0 Keyword Spotting (KWS) models are becoming increasingly integrated into various systems, e.g. voice assistants. background 1.00 0.04 0.01 asserted 0.95
s1 To achieve satisfactory performance, these models typically rely on a large amount of labelled data, limiting their applications only to situations where such data is available. background 0.88 0.05 0.02 asserted 0.97
s2 Self-supervised Learning (SSL) methods can mitigate such a reliance by leveraging readily-available unlabelled data. background 1.00 0.05 0.03 asserted 0.68
s3 Most SSL methods for speech have primarily been studied for large models, whereas this is not ideal, as compact KWS models are generally required. gap 0.89 0.05 0.02 asserted 0.99
s4 This paper explores the effectiveness of SSL on small models for KWS and establishes that SSL can enhance the performance of small KWS models when labelled data is scarce. contribution 0.88 0.74 0.93 asserted 1.00
s5 We pretrain three compact transformer-based KWS models using Data2Vec, and fine-tune them on a label-deficient setup of the Google Speech Commands data set. method 0.99 0.97 0.04 asserted 0.89
s6 It is found that Data2Vec pretraining leads to a significant increase in accuracy, with label-deficient scenarios showing an improvement of 8.22% 11.18% absolute accuracy. result 1.00 0.95 0.47 asserted 1.00

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Keyword Spotting (KWS) models are becoming increasingly integrated into various systems, e.g. voice assistants. To achieve satisfactory performance, these models typically rely on a large amount of labelled data, limiting their applications only to situations where such data is available. Self-supervised Learning (SSL) methods can mitigate such a reliance by leveraging readily-available unlabelled data. Most SSL methods for speech have primarily been studied for large models, whereas this is not ideal, as compact KWS models are generally required. This paper explores the effectiveness of SSL on small models for KWS and establishes that SSL can enhance the performance of small KWS models when labelled data is scarce. We pretrain three compact transformer-based KWS models using Data2Vec, and fine-tune them on a label-deficient setup of the Google Speech Commands data set. It is found that Data2Vec pretraining leads to a significant increase in accuracy, with label-deficient scenarios showing an improvement of 8.22% 11.18% absolute accuracy.

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