FAT-HuBERT: Front-end Adaptive Training of Hidden-unit BERT for Distortion-Invariant Robust Speech Recognition
Journal: arXiv (Cornell University)
Year: 2023

Advancements in monaural speech enhancement (SE) techniques have greatly improved the perceptual quality of speech. However, integrating these techniques into automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems has not yielded the expected performance gains, primarily due to the introduction of distortions during the SE process. In this paper, we propose a novel approach called FAT-HuBERT, which leverages distortion-invariant self-supervised learning (SSL) to enhance the robustness of ASR. To address the