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Audio-Native Speech Recognition with a Frozen Discrete-Diffusion Language Model

Harsha Vardhan Khurdula, Abhinav Kumar Singh, Yoeven D Khemlani +1

The paper introduces an audio‑native interface for a frozen discrete‑diffusion language model (DiffusionGemma) that transcribes speech in parallel using a Whisper encoder, a projec…