Self-Supervised Learning for Speech Recognition: A Review
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https://doi.org/10.65204/djes.v3i2.782Keywords:
APC , Self-Supervised Learning , Automatic Speech Recognition, Datasets, SSLAbstract
For deep supervised learning algorithms to work well, a lot of labeled data is usually needed. However, gathering and classifying this kind of data may be costly and time-consuming. A subclass of unsupervised learning called self-supervised learning (SSL) seeks to cutting discriminative features from unlabeled data without the need for human-annotated labels. Recently, SSL has attracted a lot of attention, which has prompted the creation of many associated algorithms. Comprehensive studies that clarify the relationships and development of various SSL variations are scarce, nonetheless. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has advanced significantly in recent years thanks to a variety of deep learning methods. Since deep learning methods rely heavily on data, a variety of online speech datasets are also covered in detail. We included each aspect that could affect an ASR's performance in our investigation. Therefore, we hypothesize that this work is a suitable place for scholars interested in ASR research to start.
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