用音素预测提升脑电听觉解码,同时输出语音波形和文字。
Enhancing Listened Speech Decoding from EEG via Parallel Phoneme Sequence Prediction
- 并行训练脑电信号与音素序列,共享特征表示。
- 在语音波形和文本音素上均超越已有方法。
- 适合脑机接口、言语障碍辅助技术研究者。
脑机接口(BCI)为神经功能障碍患者提供了诸多人本应用前景,其中从脑活动解码文本或语音是改善患者生活质量的关键方向。本文提出一种新方法,通过引入辅助音素预测模块,同步解码听觉任务中的语音波形与音素序列,以增强从脑电图(EEG)信号中解码听觉内容的性能。模型架构包含三个部分:脑电模块负责将原始EEG信号编码为嵌入向量;语音模块根据嵌入生成语音波形;音素预测器则输出文本形式的音素序列。该方法实现了两种模态(语音波形与文本音素)的并行解码,无需串联处理流程,显著提升了效率与精度。实验结果表明,该方法在两项任务上均优于现有基准。源代码与语音样例已公开。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) offer numerous human-centered application possibilities, particularly affecting people with neurological disorders. Text or speech decoding from brain activities is a relevant domain that could augment the quality of life for people with impaired speech perception. We propose a novel approach to enhance listened speech decoding from electroencephalography (EEG) signals by utilizing an auxiliary phoneme predictor that simultaneously decodes textual phoneme sequences. The proposed model architecture consists of three main parts: EEG module, speech module, and phoneme predictor. The EEG module learns to properly represent EEG signals into EEG embeddings. The speech module generates speech waveforms from the EEG embeddings. The phoneme predictor outputs the decoded phoneme sequences in text modality. Our proposed approach allows users to obtain decoded listened speech from EEG signals in both modalities (speech waveforms and textual phoneme sequences) simultaneously, eliminating the need for a concatenated sequential pipeline for each modality. The proposed approach also outperforms previous methods in both modalities. The source code and speech samples are publicly available.
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