5 papers
Context-Aware ASR for Mandarin Technical Lectures
Ho-Lam Chung, Yiming Chen, Hung-yi Lee
Technical lectures mix Mandarin speech with English technical terms. These terms carry the core meaning of the lecture, yet they occupy few characters. Character error rate (CER) t…
TaigiSpeech: A Low-Resource Real-World Speech Intent Dataset and Preliminary Results with Scalable Data Mining In-the-Wild
Kai-Wei Chang, Yi-Cheng Lin, Huang-Cheng Chou +9
Speech technologies have advanced rapidly and serve diverse populations worldwide. However, many languages remain underrepresented due to limited resources. In this paper, we intro…
TiCo: Time-Controllable Spoken Dialogue Model
Kai-Wei Chang, Wei-Chih Chen, En-Pei Hu +2
We introduce TiCo, a time-controllable spoken dialogue model (SDM) that follows time-constrained instructions (e.g., "Please generate a response lasting about 15 seconds") and gene…
On The Landscape of Spoken Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey
Siddhant Arora, Kai-Wei Chang, Chung-Ming Chien +7
The field of spoken language processing is undergoing a shift from training custom-built, task-specific models toward using and optimizing spoken language models (SLMs) which act a…
BILLY: Steering Large Language Models via Merging Persona Vectors for Creative Generation
Tsung-Min Pai, Jui-I Wang, Li-Chun Lu +3
Multi-LLM systems enhance the creativity of large language models by simulating human collective intelligence but suffer from significant drawbacks, such as high computational cost…