Summary of Open Implementation and Study Of Best-rq For Speech Processing, by Ryan Whetten et al.
Open Implementation and Study of BEST-RQ for Speech Processing
by Ryan Whetten, Titouan Parcollet, Marco Dinarelli, Yannick Estève
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper explores Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) for speech tasks, specifically Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and speech translation. BERT-based Speech pre-Training with Random-projection Quantizer (BEST-RQ) is a promising approach that requires less data, memory, and computational resources compared to other SSL methods like wav2vec 2.0. The authors implement and evaluate BEST-RQ on four downstream tasks, demonstrating its potential for comparable performance to wav2vec 2.0 while reducing training time by over two times. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at a way to make speech recognition better using self-supervised learning (a way to teach machines without human help). It’s all about making computers understand what people are saying, and this new method is called BEST-RQ. It’s simpler than other methods, but still works well for recognizing speech. The researchers tried it out on four different tasks and found that it can be just as good as another popular method while taking less time to train. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Bert » Self supervised » Translation
