textless-lib: a Library for Textless Spoken Language Processing

Eugene Kharitonov, Jade Copet, Kushal Lakhotia, Tu Anh Nguyen, Paden Tomasello, Ann Lee, Ali Elkahky, Wei-Ning Hsu, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Emmanuel Dupoux, Yossi Adi


Abstract
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. We describe the building blocks that the library provides and demonstrate its usability by discuss three different use-case examples: (i) speaker probing, (ii) speech resynthesis and compression, and (iii) speech continuation. We believe that textless-lib substantially simplifies research the textless setting and will be handful not only for speech researchers but also for the NLP community at large.
Anthology ID:
2022.naacl-demo.1
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: System Demonstrations
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Hybrid: Seattle, Washington + Online
Editors:
Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Qiang Ning, Avi Sil
Venue:
NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1–9
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-demo.1
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-demo.1
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Cite (ACL):
Eugene Kharitonov, Jade Copet, Kushal Lakhotia, Tu Anh Nguyen, Paden Tomasello, Ann Lee, Ali Elkahky, Wei-Ning Hsu, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Emmanuel Dupoux, and Yossi Adi. 2022. textless-lib: a Library for Textless Spoken Language Processing. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: System Demonstrations, pages 1–9, Hybrid: Seattle, Washington + Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
textless-lib: a Library for Textless Spoken Language Processing (Kharitonov et al., NAACL 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-demo.1.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-demo.1.mp4
Code
 facebookresearch/textlesslib
Data
Libri-LightLibriSpeech