7 papers
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…
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…
Unified Vision-Language Modeling via Concept Space Alignment
Yifu Qiu, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Holger Schwenk
We introduce V-SONAR, a vision-language embedding space extended from the text-only embedding space SONAR (Omnilingual Embeddings Team et al., 2026), which supports 1500 text langu…
Omnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages
Omnilingual ASR team, Gil Keren, Artyom Kozhevnikov +30
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has advanced in high-resource languages, but most of the world's 7,000+ languages remain unsupported, leaving thousands of long-tail languages be…
Large Concept Models: Language Modeling in a Sentence Representation Space
LCM team, Loïc Barrault, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne +18
LLMs have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence and have emerged as the de-facto tool for many tasks. The current established technology of LLMs is to process input a…
Spirit LM: Interleaved Spoken and Written Language Model
Tu Anh Nguyen, Benjamin Muller, Bokai Yu +13
We introduce Spirit LM, a foundation multimodal language model that freely mixes text and speech. Our model is based on a 7B pretrained text language model that we extend to the sp…