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Data Augmenting Contrastive Learning of Speech Representations in the Time Domain

Abstract

Contrastive Predictive Coding (CPC), based on predicting future segments of speech based on past segments is emerging as a powerful algorithm for representation learning of speech signal. However, it still under-performs other methods on unsupervised evaluation benchmarks. Here, we introduce WavAugment, a time-domain data augmentation library and find that applying augmentation in the past is generally more efficient and yields better performances than other methods. We find that a combination of pitch modification, additive noise and reverberation substantially increase the performance of CPC (relative improvement of 18-22%), beating the reference Libri-light results with 600 times less data. Using an out-of-domain dataset, time-domain data augmentation can push CPC to be on par with the state of the art on the Zero Speech Benchmark 2017. We also show that time-domain data augmentation consistently improves downstream limited-supervision phoneme classification tasks by a factor of 12-15% relative.
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hal-03070321 , version 1 (15-12-2020)

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Eugene Kharitonov, Morgane Rivière, Gabriel Synnaeve, Lior Wolf, Pierre-Emmanuel Mazaré, et al.. Data Augmenting Contrastive Learning of Speech Representations in the Time Domain. SLT 2020 - IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, Dec 2020, Shenzhen / Virtual, China. ⟨hal-03070321⟩
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