8 papers
How Auditory Knowledge in LLM Backbones Shapes Audio Language Models: A Holistic Evaluation
Ke-Han Lu, Szu-Wei Fu, Chao-Han Huck Yang +13
Large language models (LLMs) have been widely used as knowledge backbones of Large Audio Language Models (LALMs), yet how much auditory knowledge they encode through text-only pre-…
Style Amnesia: Investigating Speaking Style Degradation and Mitigation in Multi-Turn Spoken Language Models
Yu-Xiang Lin, Cheng-Han Chiang, Hung-yi Lee
In this paper, we show that when spoken language models (SLMs) are instructed to speak in a specific speaking style at the beginning of a multi-turn conversation, they cannot maint…
SHANKS: Simultaneous Hearing and Thinking for Spoken Language Models
Cheng-Han Chiang, Xiaofei Wang, Linjie Li +7
Current large language models (LLMs) and spoken language models (SLMs) begin thinking and taking actions only after the user has finished their turn. This prevents the model from i…
STITCH: Simultaneous Thinking and Talking with Chunked Reasoning for Spoken Language Models
Cheng-Han Chiang, Xiaofei Wang, Linjie Li +7
Spoken Language Models (SLMs) are designed to take speech inputs and produce spoken responses. However, current SLMs lack the ability to perform an internal, unspoken thinking proc…
DeSTA2.5-Audio: Toward General-Purpose Large Audio Language Model with Self-Generated Cross-Modal Alignment
Ke-Han Lu, Zhehuai Chen, Szu-Wei Fu +25
We introduce DeSTA2.5-Audio, a general-purpose Large Audio Language Model (LALM) designed for robust auditory perception and instruction-following. Recent LALMs augment Large Langu…
Audio-Aware Large Language Models as Judges for Speaking Styles
Cheng-Han Chiang, Xiaofei Wang, Chung-Ching Lin +8
Audio-aware large language models (ALLMs) can understand the textual and non-textual information in the audio input. In this paper, we explore using ALLMs as an automatic judge to…