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cs.CL2026
Linguistically Informed Evaluation of Multilingual ASR for African Languages
Fei-Yueh Chen, Lateef Adeleke, C. M. Downey
Word Error Rate (WER) mischaracterizes ASR models' performance for African languages by combining phonological, tone, and other linguistic errors into a single lexical error. By co…
cs.CL2025
Aligning Spoken Dialogue Models from User Interactions
Anne Wu, Laurent Mazaré, Neil Zeghidour +1
We propose a novel preference alignment framework for improving spoken dialogue models on real-time conversations from user interactions. Current preference learning methods primar…
cs.CL2023
Textually Pretrained Speech Language Models
Michael Hassid, Tal Remez, Tu Anh Nguyen +9
Speech language models (SpeechLMs) process and generate acoustic data only, without textual supervision. In this work, we propose TWIST, a method for training SpeechLMs using a war…