Acoustic Word Embeddings for Untranscribed Target Languages with Continued Pretraining and Learned Pooling
Conference of the International Speech Communication Association(2023)
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Acoustic word embeddings are typically created by training a pooling function using pairs of word-like units. For unsupervised systems, these are mined using k-nearest neighbor (KNN) search, which is slow. Recently, mean-pooled representations from a pre-trained self-supervised English model were suggested as a promising alternative, but their performance on target languages was not fully competitive. Here, we explore improvements to both approaches: we use continued pre-training to adapt the self-supervised model to the target language, and we use a multilingual phone recognizer (MPR) to mine phone n-gram pairs for training the pooling function. Evaluating on four languages, we show that both methods outperform a recent approach on word discrimination. Moreover, the MPR method is orders of magnitude faster than KNN, and is highly data efficient. We also show a small improvement from performing learned pooling on top of the continued pre-trained representations.
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