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Breeze Taigi: Benchmarks and Models for Taiwanese Hokkien Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Yu-Siang Lan, Chia-Sheng Liu, Yi-Chang Chen +5
Taiwanese Hokkien (Taigi) presents unique opportunities for advancing speech technology methodologies that can generalize to diverse linguistic contexts. We introduce Breeze Taigi,…
TASTE: Text-Aligned Speech Tokenization and Embedding for Spoken Language Modeling
Liang-Hsuan Tseng, Yi-Chang Chen, Kuan-Yi Lee +2
Recent efforts target spoken language models (SLMs) that not only listen but also speak for more natural human-LLM interaction. Joint speech-text modeling is a promising direction…
The Breeze 2 Herd of Models: Traditional Chinese LLMs Based on Llama with Vision-Aware and Function-Calling Capabilities
MediaTek Research, :, Chan-Jan Hsu +6
Llama-Breeze2 (hereinafter referred to as Breeze2) is a suite of advanced multi-modal language models, available in 3B and 8B parameter configurations, specifically designed to enh…
BreezyVoice: Adapting TTS for Taiwanese Mandarin with Enhanced Polyphone Disambiguation -- Challenges and Insights
Chan-Jan Hsu, Yi-Cheng Lin, Chia-Chun Lin +10
We present BreezyVoice, a Text-to-Speech (TTS) system specifically adapted for Taiwanese Mandarin, highlighting phonetic control abilities to address the unique challenges of polyp…
Enhancing Function-Calling Capabilities in LLMs: Strategies for Prompt Formats, Data Integration, and Multilingual Translation
Yi-Chang Chen, Po-Chun Hsu, Chan-Jan Hsu +1
Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced autonomous agents, particularly in zero-shot tool usage, also known as function calling. This research delves into enhancin…