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MERaLiON-GR: Speech Gender Recognition Model for English and SEA Languages
Qiongqiong Wang, Ai Ti Aw, Nancy F. Chen +18
We present MERaLiON-GR, a speech gender recognition system that performs binary classification (female / male) on English and Southeast Asian (SEA) languages. The model finetunes M…
Goodness-of-pronunciation without phoneme time alignment
Jeremy H. M. Wong, Nancy F. Chen
In speech evaluation, an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model often computes time boundaries and phoneme posteriors for input features. However, limited data for ASR training h…
Incorporating Contextual Paralinguistic Understanding in Large Speech-Language Models
Qiongqiong Wang, Hardik B. Sailor, Jeremy H. M. Wong +6
Current large speech language models (Speech-LLMs) often exhibit limitations in empathetic reasoning, primarily due to the absence of training datasets that integrate both contextu…
Beyond Classification: Towards Speech Emotion Reasoning with Multitask AudioLLMs
Wenyu Zhang, Yingxu He, Geyu Lin +9
Audio Large Language Models (AudioLLMs) have achieved strong results in semantic tasks like speech recognition and translation, but remain limited in modeling paralinguistic cues s…
MERaLiON-SpeechEncoder: Towards a Speech Foundation Model for Singapore and Beyond
Muhammad Huzaifah, Geyu Lin, Tianchi Liu +8
This technical report describes the MERaLiON-SpeechEncoder, a foundation model designed to support a wide range of downstream speech applications. Developed as part of Singapore's…