7 papers
StarDrinks: An English and Korean Test Set for SLU Evaluation in a Drink Ordering Scenario
Marcely Zanon Boito, Caroline Brun, Inyoung Kim +5
LLMs and speech assistants are increasingly used for task-oriented interactions, yet their evaluation often relies on controlled scenarios that fail to capture the variability and…
NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following 2026 Short Track
Marcely Zanon Boito, Hemant Yadav, Jean-Luc Meunier +1
In this paper, we describe NAVER LABS Europe's submission to the instruction-following speech processing short track at IWSLT 2026. We participate again in the constrained setting,…
SpeechMapper: Speech-to-text Embedding Projector for LLMs
Biswesh Mohapatra, Marcely Zanon Boito, Ioan Calapodescu
Current speech LLMs bridge speech foundation models to LLMs using projection layers, training all of these components on speech instruction data. This strategy is computationally i…
Multilingual DistilWhisper: Efficient Distillation of Multi-task Speech Models via Language-Specific Experts
Thomas Palmeira Ferraz, Marcely Zanon Boito, Caroline Brun +1
Whisper is a multitask and multilingual speech model covering 99 languages. It yields commendable automatic speech recognition (ASR) results in a subset of its covered languages, b…
From TOWER to SPIRE: Adding the Speech Modality to a Translation-Specialist LLM
Kshitij Ambilduke, Ben Peters, Sonal Sannigrahi +5
We introduce Spire, a speech-augmented language model (LM) capable of both translating and transcribing speech input from English into 10 other languages as well as translating tex…
NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
Beomseok Lee, Marcely Zanon Boito, Laurent Besacier +1
In this paper we describe NAVER LABS Europe submission to the instruction-following speech processing short track at IWSLT 2025. We participate in the constrained settings, develop…