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20192026
most citedThe Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2020: Discovering discrete subword and word units

18 citations · 34 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026★ 3 cited

Gemma 4 Technical Report

Gemma Team, Sherif El Abd, Vaibhav Aggarwal +320

We introduce Gemma 4, a new generation of open-weight, natively multimodal language models in the Gemma model family. Designed to advance compute efficiency and reasoning, the Gemm…

cs.CL2025

SpidR: Learning Fast and Stable Linguistic Units for Spoken Language Models Without Supervision

Maxime Poli, Mahi Luthra, Youssef Benchekroun +8

The parallel advances in language modeling and speech representation learning have raised the prospect of learning language directly from speech without textual intermediates. This…

cs.CL2025

LongTail-Swap: benchmarking language models' abilities on rare words

Robin Algayres, Charles-Éric Saint-James, Mahi Luthra +6

Children learn to speak with a low amount of data and can be taught new words on a few-shot basis, making them particularly data-efficient learners. The BabyLM challenge aims at ex…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Spirit LM: Interleaved Spoken and Written Language Model

Tu Anh Nguyen, Benjamin Muller, Bokai Yu +13

We introduce Spirit LM, a foundation multimodal language model that freely mixes text and speech. Our model is based on a 7B pretrained text language model that we extend to the sp…

cs.CL2023

XLS-R fine-tuning on noisy word boundaries for unsupervised speech segmentation into words

Robin Algayres, Pablo Diego-Simon, Benoit Sagot +1

Due to the absence of explicit word boundaries in the speech stream, the task of segmenting spoken sentences into word units without text supervision is particularly challenging. I…

cs.CL2023

Generative Spoken Language Model based on continuous word-sized audio tokens

Robin Algayres, Yossi Adi, Tu Anh Nguyen +4

In NLP, text language models based on words or subwords are known to outperform their character-based counterparts. Yet, in the speech community, the standard input of spoken LMs a…