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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2022
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Kaizhi Qian, Champaign, IL (US);
Yang Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Chuang Gan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Dakuo Wang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Bo Wu, Cambridge, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, computer system and computer program product is presented for providing a self-supervised speech representation. In one embodiment, audio input is received including speech utterances. A label sequence is generated from these speech utterances by a teacher label generator. A speech representation is generated of a partially masked version of the speech utterance using a speech representation network. The speech utterance is passed into two random transformations that alter only speaker information prior to the partial masking. A predictor will then predict the label sequence. In one embodiment performance-based assessment is made on a cross-entropy loss between the generated label sequence and a predicted label sequence.