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Rethinking Speech-LLM Integration for ASR: Effective Joint Speech-Text Training by Interleaving
Ruchao Fan, Yiming Wang, Rui Zhao +10
Speech-LLM integration has shown promising results by leveraging extensive textual pretraining, yet its specific benefits for automatic speech recognition (ASR) remain unclear. We…
eess.AS2026
LLM can Read Spectrogram: Encoder-free Speech-Language Modeling
Ruchao Fan, Yiming Wang, Yuxuan Hu +6
Recent speech-aware large language models (Speech-LLMs) rely on pre-trained speech encoders to convert audio into semantic/acoustic rich representations consumable by LLM. In this…