2 papers
cs.SD2026
CARD: Cross-component Audio Representation Distillation for Encoder-Free Audio Captioning
Ganesh Pavan Kartikeya Bharadwaj Kolluri, Yuchen Zhang, Michael Kampouridis +1
Modern automated audio captioning systems pair a frozen audio encoder with a large language model (LLM) via a trainable projector, incurring the encoder's inference cost and bottle…
cs.CL2026
Speak in Context: Multilingual ASR with Speech Context Alignment via Contrastive Learning
Yuchen Zhang, Haralambos Mouratidis, Ravi Shekhar
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has benefited from advances in pretrained speech and language models, yet most systems remain constrained to monolingual settings and short, isol…