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cs.CL2026
Spoken Language Models that Think Aloud
Junyi Ao, Kainan Peng, Mingbo Ma +10
While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has improved the capability of language models, directly applying it to Spoken Language Models (SLMs) may introduce long silent intervals und…
cs.SD2026
Scaling Speech Tokenizers with Diffusion Autoencoders
Yuancheng Wang, Zhenyu Tang, Yun Wang +9
Speech tokenizers are foundational to speech language models, yet existing approaches face two major challenges: (1) balancing trade-offs between encoding semantics for understandi…