5 papers
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…
On the Role of Encoder Depth: Pruning Whisper and LoRA Fine-Tuning in SLAM-ASR
Ganesh Pavan Kartikeya Bharadwaj Kolluri, Michael Kampouridis, Ravi Shekhar
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has advanced rapidly in recent years, driven by large-scale pretrained models and end-to-end architectures such as SLAM-ASR. A key component of S…
OasisSimp: An Open-source Asian-English Sentence Simplification Dataset
Hannah Liu, Muxin Tian, Iqra Ali +8
Sentence simplification aims to make complex text more accessible by reducing linguistic complexity while preserving the original meaning. However, progress in this area remains li…
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…
SiTSE: Sinhala Text Simplification Dataset and Evaluation
Surangika Ranathunga, Rumesh Sirithunga, Himashi Rathnayake +4
Text Simplification is a task that has been minimally explored for low-resource languages. Consequently, there are only a few manually curated datasets. In this paper, we present a…