@inproceedings{
haliassos2024unified,
title={Unified Speech Recognition: A Single Model for Auditory, Visual, and Audiovisual Inputs},
author={Alexandros Haliassos and Rodrigo Mira and Honglie Chen and Zoe Landgraf and Stavros Petridis and Maja Pantic},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=vWSll6M9pj}
}
Research in auditory, visual, and audiovisual speech recognition (ASR, VSR, and AVSR, respectively) has traditionally been conducted independently. Even recent self-supervised studies addressing two or all three tasks simultaneously tend to yield separate models, leading to disjoint inference pipelines with increased memory requirements and redundancies. This paper proposes unified training strategies for these systems. We demonstrate that training a single model for all three tasks enhances VSR and AVSR performance, overcoming typical optimisation challenges when training from scratch. Moreover, we introduce a greedy pseudo-labelling approach to more effectively leverage unlabelled samples, addressing shortcomings in related self-supervised methods. Finally, we develop a self-supervised pre-training method within our framework, proving its effectiveness alongside our semi-supervised approach. Despite using a single model for all tasks, our unified approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on LRS3 for ASR, VSR, and AVSR compared to recent methods. Code will be made publicly available.
Unified Speech Recognition: A Single Model for Auditory, Visual, and Audiovisual Inputs
Alexandros Haliassos Rodrigo Mira Honglie Chen Zoe Landgraf Stavros Petridis Maja Pantic