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most citedNeKo: Cross-Modality Post-Recognition Error Correction with Tasks-Guided Mixture-of-Experts Language Model

1 citations · 3 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

All In Good Time: Causality-Aware Framework for LLM-Based Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation

Amir Hussein, Enas Albasiri, Travis M. Bartley +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in low-resource offline translation; however, extending them to simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (Simul-S2ST) re…

cs.CL2026

NemotronLabs VoiceChat: An Open Full-duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with Tool Calling Capabilities

Jagadeesh Balam, Travis Bartley, Edresson Casanova +52

We introduce NemotronLabs VoiceChat, an open full-duplex speech-to-speech model with native tool-calling capabilities. NemotronLabs VoiceChat combines a streaming speech encoder an…

cs.CL2026

A frontend-backend architecture for tool calls in full-duplex speech models

Ke Hu, Slyne Deng, Chen Chen +10

Full-duplex speech-to-speech (S2S) models provide natural, low-latency conversational interaction and would benefit from the ability to use external tools and complete voice-agent…

cs.CL2026

Enabling Streaming User Transcription in Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Models

Ke Hu, Nourchene Ferchichi, Edresson Casanova +9

Full-duplex speech-to-speech (S2S) models enable natural conversational AI by allowing simultaneous listening and speaking. However, these models typically lack inherent user speec…

eess.AS2026

VoiceChat-TTS: A Low-Latency Continuous Speech Synthesis Model for Interactive Agents

Edresson Casanova, Jaehyeon Kim, Mariana Graterol Fuenmayor +17

Spoken dialogue is a natural form of human--computer interaction, yet most speech language models remain limited to turn-based operation and lack real-time adaptability, such as us…

cs.CL2025

Word Level Timestamp Generation for Automatic Speech Recognition and Translation

Ke Hu, Krishna Puvvada, Elena Rastorgueva +7

We introduce a data-driven approach for enabling word-level timestamp prediction in the Canary model. Accurate timestamp information is crucial for a variety of downstream tasks su…

cs.CL2025

SALM-Duplex: Efficient and Direct Duplex Modeling for Speech-to-Speech Language Model

Ke Hu, Ehsan Hosseini-Asl, Chen Chen +7

Spoken dialogue is an intuitive form of human-computer interaction, yet current speech language models often remain constrained to turn-based exchanges, lacking real-time adaptabil…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Training and Inference Efficiency of Encoder-Decoder Speech Models

Piotr Żelasko, Kunal Dhawan, Daniel Galvez +7

Attention encoder-decoder model architecture is the backbone of several recent top performing foundation speech models: Whisper, Seamless, OWSM, and Canary-1B. However, the reporte…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

NeKo: Cross-Modality Post-Recognition Error Correction with Tasks-Guided Mixture-of-Experts Language Model

Yen-Ting Lin, Zhehuai Chen, Piotr Zelasko +11

Construction of a general-purpose post-recognition error corrector poses a crucial question: how can we most effectively train a model on a large mixture of domain datasets? The an…

cs.CL2024

VoiceTextBlender: Augmenting Large Language Models with Speech Capabilities via Single-Stage Joint Speech-Text Supervised Fine-Tuning

Yifan Peng, Krishna C. Puvvada, Zhehuai Chen +7

Recent studies have augmented large language models (LLMs) with speech capabilities, leading to the development of speech language models (SpeechLMs). Earlier SpeechLMs focused on…

cs.CL2024

EMMeTT: Efficient Multimodal Machine Translation Training

Piotr Żelasko, Zhehuai Chen, Mengru Wang +7

A rising interest in the modality extension of foundation language models warrants discussion on the most effective, and efficient, multimodal training approach. This work focuses…

cs.CL2024

Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Speech Translation

Ke Hu, Zhehuai Chen, Chao-Han Huck Yang +5

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable advancements in language understanding and generation. Building on the success of text-based LLMs, recent research has ada…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

IndicVoices: Towards building an Inclusive Multilingual Speech Dataset for Indian Languages

Tahir Javed, Janki Atul Nawale, Eldho Ittan George +18

We present INDICVOICES, a dataset of natural and spontaneous speech containing a total of 7348 hours of read (9%), extempore (74%) and conversational (17%) audio from 16237 speaker…