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Yao Qian

Principal Researcher in Microsoft's Speech and Dialog Research Group; co-author of WavLM

Yao Qian is a Principal Researcher in the Speech and Dialog Research Group at Microsoft, with research on spoken language processing and, most recently, large-scale speech-language representation learning. Qian is a co-author of WavLM, a Microsoft model for self-supervised pre-training for full-stack speech processing, and of UniSpeech-SAT, which adds speaker-aware pre-training to universal speech representation learning.12345

Work

  • WavLM (external site: arxiv.org)Published research

    Co-author of WavLM: Large-Scale Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Full Stack Speech Processing; Microsoft Research's publication page for the paper links Qian's Microsoft Research profile.23

  • UniSpeech-SAT (external site: arxiv.org)Published research

    Co-author of UniSpeech-SAT: Universal Speech Representation Learning with Speaker Aware Pre-Training (2021); Microsoft Research's publication page for the paper links Qian's profile.45

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Sources · reviewed Oct 13, 2026

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    Yao Qian — Microsoft Research profile (external site: microsoft.com)

    Microsoft Research · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    WavLM — Microsoft Research publication page (external site: microsoft.com)

    Microsoft Research · Official page · published Jul 2022 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    UniSpeech-SAT — Microsoft Research publication page (external site: microsoft.com)

    Microsoft Research · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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