RESEARCH

SPEECH & AUDIO

wav2vec: Unsupervised Pre-training for Speech Recognition

August 29, 2019

Abstract

We explore unsupervised pre-training for speech recognition by learning representations of raw audio. wav2vec is trained on large amounts of unlabeled audio data and the resulting representations are then used to improve acoustic model training. We pre-train a simple multi-layer convolutional neural network optimized via a noise contrastive binary classification task. Our experiments on WSJ reduce WER of a strong character-based log-mel filterbank baseline by up to 36% when only a few hours of transcribed data is available. Our approach achieves 2.43% WER on the nov92 test set. This outperforms Deep Speech 2, the best reported character-based system in the literature while using three orders of magnitude less labeled training data.

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AUTHORS

Written by

Michael Auli

Alexei Baevski

Ronan Collobert

Steffen Schneider

Publisher

Interspeech

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