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Interpreting the Role of Visemes in Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

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keywords audio-visual speech recognitionvisemesinterpretabilityt-SNEprobingAV-HuBERTfeature clusteringmultimodal representations
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The pith

Visual cues drive natural clustering of speech features in AVSR models, with audio refining representations for ambiguous visemes.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper examines how visemes are encoded inside AV-HuBERT, a leading audio-visual speech recognition model. t-SNE visualizations of the model's learned features show that these features form clusters primarily according to visual information. The addition of audio further organizes and sharpens those clusters. Linear probing experiments demonstrate that audio contributes most to disambiguating visemes that look similar on the lips or appear infrequently in training data. These observations explain part of the performance gain seen when models combine audio and video over audio alone.

Core claim

t-SNE visualizations of AV-HuBERT features reveal natural clustering driven by visual cues, which is further refined by the presence of audio. Probing shows that audio contributes to refining feature representations particularly for visemes that are visually ambiguous or under-represented.

What carries the argument

t-SNE embeddings combined with linear probing classifiers applied to AV-HuBERT multimodal features to separate visual-driven clustering from audio-driven refinement of viseme representations.

If this is right

  • The visual modality supplies the dominant initial structure for grouping speech units inside the model.
  • Audio input acts mainly as a disambiguator for visemes that share similar lip shapes or are rare in the data.
  • AVSR performance gains arise from this staged division of labor rather than uniform fusion of the two streams.
  • Targeted improvements to visual feature quality could strengthen the primary clusters before audio is added.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same visual-first pattern may appear in other multimodal speech models and could be tested by applying identical visualizations across architectures.
  • Training regimes that emphasize visual examples of ambiguous visemes might reduce reliance on audio and improve robustness in noisy conditions.
  • The findings suggest possible parallels with human speech perception, where lip reading provides coarse categories that sound resolves.
  • Lip-reading systems could adopt similar staged clustering to handle cases where visual input alone is insufficient.

Load-bearing premise

t-SNE visualizations and linear probes accurately expose the separate causal roles of visual and audio inputs without major distortion from the reduction method or the probe architecture.

What would settle it

If AV-HuBERT features extracted from audio-only or visual-only inputs produce t-SNE clusters and probe accuracies that match the full audio-visual case for ambiguous visemes, the claim that audio provides specific refinement would not hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2509.16023 by Aristeidis Papadopoulos, Naomi Harte.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Number of frames per viseme label found in the LRS3 test set. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: t-SNE visualization of video only features from Layer 11, with visemes indicated by colour and phonemes distinguished by marker shape [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: t-SNE visualization of clean AV features from Layer 11, with visemes indicated by color and phonemes distinguished by marker shape [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Viseme Classification Accuracy on LRS3 Test set for each input [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: F1 Scores from probing for visemes ’F’ and ’ER’ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) models have surpassed their audio-only counterparts in terms of performance. However, the interpretability of AVSR systems, particularly the role of the visual modality, remains under-explored. In this paper, we apply several interpretability techniques to examine how visemes are encoded in AV-HuBERT a state-of-the-art AVSR model. First, we use t-distributed Stochastic Neighbour Embedding (t-SNE) to visualize learned features, revealing natural clustering driven by visual cues, which is further refined by the presence of audio. Then, we employ probing to show how audio contributes to refining feature representations, particularly for visemes that are visually ambiguous or under-represented. Our findings shed light on the interplay between modalities in AVSR and could point to new strategies for leveraging visual information to improve AVSR performance.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript applies interpretability methods to the AV-HuBERT audio-visual speech recognition model to examine viseme encoding. It reports that t-SNE visualizations of learned features exhibit natural clustering driven primarily by visual cues, with audio input providing further refinement, and that linear probing indicates audio contributes to disambiguating representations for visually ambiguous or under-represented visemes.

Significance. If the methodological concerns are addressed, the work offers useful observations on modality contributions in a leading AVSR model and grounds the analysis in the linguistically relevant unit of visemes. This could inform targeted improvements in visual leverage for AVSR. The application of standard tools (t-SNE and probing) to an existing high-performing model is a positive aspect, though the observational nature and lack of quantitative validation limit the strength of the causal interpretations.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (t-SNE visualizations): The central claim that visualizations reveal 'natural clustering driven by visual cues, which is further refined by the presence of audio' lacks supporting quantitative metrics such as adjusted Rand index or normalized mutual information against viseme labels, and no robustness checks (multiple perplexity values, UMAP comparison, or audio-ablated embeddings) are reported. This is load-bearing for the interpretation because t-SNE is known to produce spurious clusters sensitive to hyperparameters and initialization.
  2. [§5] §5 (probing experiments): The conclusion that 'audio contributes to refining feature representations particularly for visemes that are visually ambiguous or under-represented' relies on linear probes without reported controls for probe architecture (e.g., comparison to non-linear probes or random baselines), modality ablations, or statistical significance testing across viseme classes. This weakens the specific attribution of refinement effects to audio.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that 'several interpretability techniques' are applied but only describes t-SNE and probing in detail; clarify whether additional methods were used and their results.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions for t-SNE plots should explicitly state the color mapping (e.g., by viseme class or modality condition) and any preprocessing steps such as feature normalization.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback on our manuscript. The comments correctly identify opportunities to strengthen the quantitative support for our interpretability claims. We address each major comment below and commit to revisions that directly respond to the concerns raised.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (t-SNE visualizations): The central claim that visualizations reveal 'natural clustering driven by visual cues, which is further refined by the presence of audio' lacks supporting quantitative metrics such as adjusted Rand index or normalized mutual information against viseme labels, and no robustness checks (multiple perplexity values, UMAP comparison, or audio-ablated embeddings) are reported. This is load-bearing for the interpretation because t-SNE is known to produce spurious clusters sensitive to hyperparameters and initialization.

    Authors: We agree that t-SNE is a qualitative tool and that quantitative validation plus robustness checks would make the clustering claims more robust. In the revised manuscript we will add adjusted Rand index and normalized mutual information scores computed between the t-SNE-derived clusters and the ground-truth viseme labels. We will also report results across a range of perplexity values and include a side-by-side UMAP comparison. To directly demonstrate the refinement effect of audio, we will include t-SNE visualizations of the visual-only branch embeddings (i.e., audio-ablated) alongside the full audio-visual embeddings. These additions address the risk of spurious clusters while preserving the observational nature of the analysis. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (probing experiments): The conclusion that 'audio contributes to refining feature representations particularly for visemes that are visually ambiguous or under-represented' relies on linear probes without reported controls for probe architecture (e.g., comparison to non-linear probes or random baselines), modality ablations, or statistical significance testing across viseme classes. This weakens the specific attribution of refinement effects to audio.

    Authors: We acknowledge that additional controls would improve the rigor of the probing results. In revision we will report probe accuracies for both linear and non-linear (single-hidden-layer MLP) architectures, together with a random-feature baseline. We will also add explicit modality ablations by including audio-only probing results and will perform statistical significance testing (bootstrap resampling across multiple random seeds) to quantify the improvement for visually ambiguous and under-represented visemes. These controls will be presented in an expanded §5 while retaining the focus on linear probes for interpretability. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely observational analysis of pre-trained model features

full rationale

The paper applies standard interpretability methods (t-SNE visualization and linear probing) to features extracted from the existing AV-HuBERT model. No derivation chain, first-principles predictions, fitted parameters, or self-referential equations are present. Claims rest on direct application of these techniques to model outputs without any reduction of results to the analysis inputs by construction or via self-citation load-bearing steps. The work is self-contained as empirical observation rather than a closed predictive loop.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The analysis rests on the untested premise that standard interpretability tools applied post-hoc accurately reflect the model's learned modality interactions; no free parameters, new axioms, or invented entities are introduced.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption t-SNE and probing classifiers can be used to infer causal contributions of input modalities to internal representations
    Invoked implicitly when interpreting clustering and probe accuracy as evidence of visual-audio interplay

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