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most citedSpeech-FT: Merging Pre-trained And Fine-Tuned Speech Representation Models For Cross-Task Generalization

3 citations · 3 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

eess.AS2026

CAAD: Contrastive Audio-Aware Distillation for Efficient Speech Language Models

Chun-Wei Chen, Tzu-Quan Lin, Ke-Han Lu +2

Speech Language Models achieve reasoning capabilities, but are often hindered by massive parameter counts and a tendency to prioritize linguistic priors over acoustic features. Whi…

eess.AS2026

Rethinking Entropy Minimization in Test-Time Adaptation for Autoregressive Models

Wei-Ping Huang, Chee-En Yu, Guan-Ting Lin +1

Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) via entropy minimization (EM) has proven effective for classification tasks, yet its application to generative autoregressive models remains theoreticall…

eess.AS2026

Walking Through Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of Uncertainty Estimation for Audio-Aware Large Language Models

Chun-Yi Kuan, Wei-Ping Huang, Hung-yi Lee

Recent audio-aware large language models (ALLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities across diverse audio understanding and reasoning tasks, but they still frequently produce hal…

cs.SD2026

How Contrastive Decoding Enhances Large Audio Language Models

Tzu-Quan Lin, Wei-Ping Huang, Yi-Cheng Lin +1

While Contrastive Decoding (CD) has been proposed to enhance Large Audio Language Models (LALMs), it has not been evaluated at scale, and the underlying mechanisms driving its succ…

eess.AS2025

DeSTA2.5-Audio: Toward General-Purpose Large Audio Language Model with Self-Generated Cross-Modal Alignment

Ke-Han Lu, Zhehuai Chen, Szu-Wei Fu +25

We introduce DeSTA2.5-Audio, a general-purpose Large Audio Language Model (LALM) designed for robust auditory perception and instruction-following. Recent LALMs augment Large Langu…

cs.CL2025

SUTA-LM: Bridging Test-Time Adaptation and Language Model Rescoring for Robust ASR

Wei-Ping Huang, Guan-Ting Lin, Hung-yi Lee

Despite progress in end-to-end ASR, real-world domain mismatches still cause performance drops, which Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) aims to mitigate by adjusting models during inferen…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

Speech-FT: Merging Pre-trained And Fine-Tuned Speech Representation Models For Cross-Task Generalization

Tzu-Quan Lin, Wei-Ping Huang, Hao Tang +1

Fine-tuning speech representation models can enhance performance on specific tasks but often compromises their cross-task generalization ability. This degradation is often caused b…

cs.CL2024

Building a Taiwanese Mandarin Spoken Language Model: A First Attempt

Chih-Kai Yang, Yu-Kuan Fu, Chen-An Li +18

This technical report presents our initial attempt to build a spoken large language model (LLM) for Taiwanese Mandarin, specifically tailored to enable real-time, speech-to-speech…

eess.AS2024

Speech-Copilot: Leveraging Large Language Models for Speech Processing via Task Decomposition, Modularization, and Program Generation

Chun-Yi Kuan, Chih-Kai Yang, Wei-Ping Huang +2

In this work, we introduce Speech-Copilot, a modular framework for instruction-oriented speech-processing tasks that minimizes human effort in toolset construction. Unlike end-to-e…

eess.AS2024

Understanding Sounds, Missing the Questions: The Challenge of Object Hallucination in Large Audio-Language Models

Chun-Yi Kuan, Wei-Ping Huang, Hung-yi Lee

Large audio-language models (LALMs) enhance traditional large language models by integrating audio perception capabilities, allowing them to tackle audio-related tasks. Previous re…

eess.AS2024

Continual Test-time Adaptation for End-to-end Speech Recognition on Noisy Speech

Guan-Ting Lin, Wei-Ping Huang, Hung-yi Lee

Deep Learning-based end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has made significant strides but still struggles with performance on out-of-domain samples due to domain shifts in…

cs.CL2024

Maximizing Data Efficiency for Cross-Lingual TTS Adaptation by Self-Supervised Representation Mixing and Embedding Initialization

Wei-Ping Huang, Sung-Feng Huang, Hung-yi Lee

This paper presents an effective transfer learning framework for language adaptation in text-to-speech systems, with a focus on achieving language adaptation using minimal labeled…

cs.SD2023

Findings of the 2023 ML-SUPERB Challenge: Pre-Training and Evaluation over More Languages and Beyond

Jiatong Shi, William Chen, Dan Berrebbi +10

The 2023 Multilingual Speech Universal Performance Benchmark (ML-SUPERB) Challenge expands upon the acclaimed SUPERB framework, emphasizing self-supervised models in multilingual s…

cs.CL2022

On the Utility of Self-supervised Models for Prosody-related Tasks

Guan-Ting Lin, Chi-Luen Feng, Wei-Ping Huang +5

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) from speech data has produced models that have achieved remarkable performance in many tasks, and that are known to implicitly represent many aspects…

eess.AS2022

Few-Shot Cross-Lingual TTS Using Transferable Phoneme Embedding

Wei-Ping Huang, Po-Chun Chen, Sung-Feng Huang +1

This paper studies a transferable phoneme embedding framework that aims to deal with the cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) problem under the few-shot setting. Transfer learning is…