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Ali Elkahky

3 accepted papers

2023

Do Coarser Units Benefit Cluster Prediction-Based Speech Pre-Training?

ICASSP 2023accepted

The research community has produced many successful self-supervised speech representation learning methods over the past few years. Discrete units have been utilized in various self-supervised learning frameworks, such as VQ-VAE [1], wav2vec 2.0 [2], Hu-BERT [3], and Wav2Seq [4]. This paper studies…

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2023

ICASSP 2023 Spoken Language Understanding Grand Challenge

ICASSP 2023accepted

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a important field between the Speech and NLP community focused on converting a users’ speech utterance into an executable semantic parse. In order to facilitate open research in this space, we introduce the 1st Spoken Language Understanding challenge hosted at…

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2022

textless-lib: a Library for Textless Spoken Language Processing

NAACL 2022system demonstrations

Textless spoken language processing is an exciting area of research that promises to extend applicability of the standard NLP toolset onto spoken language and languages with few or no textual resources. Here, we introduce textless-lib, a PyTorch-based library aimed to facilitate research in the area…