Bridging the gap: A comparative exploration of Speech-LLM and end-to-end architecture for multilingual conversational ASR

Yuxiang Mei, Dongxing Xu, Jiaen Liang +1

The INTERSPEECH 2025 Challenge on Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Models (MLC-SLM) promotes multilingual conversational ASR with large language models (LLMs). Our previ…