3 papers
cs.CL2026
Omnilingual SONAR: Cross-Lingual and Cross-Modal Sentence Embeddings Bridging Massively Multilingual Text and Speech
Omnilingual SONAR Team, João Maria Janeiro, Pere-LluÃs Huguet Cabot +17
Cross-lingual sentence encoders typically cover only a few hundred languages and often trade downstream quality for stronger alignment, limiting their adoption. We introduce OmniSO…
eess.AS2026
MELD: Mel-Spectrogram-Based Speech Language Modeling with Discrete Latent Variables
Sung-Lin Yeh, Wei Zhou, Gil Keren +6
Recent speech language models rely on encoders that are optimized separately from autoregressive models. Since these encoders are unaware of the downstream objectives, the extracte…
cs.CL2026
Omnilingual MT: Machine Translation for 1,600 Languages
Omnilingual MT Team, Belen Alastruey, Niyati Bafna +29
High-quality machine translation (MT) can scale to hundreds of languages, setting a high bar for multilingual systems. However, compared to the world's 7,000 languages, current sys…