3 papers
cs.CL2025
Benchmarking Contextual and Paralinguistic Reasoning in Speech-LLMs: A Case Study with In-the-Wild Data
Qiongqiong Wang, Hardik Bhupendra Sailor, Tianchi Liu +7
Recent speech-LLMs have shown impressive performance in tasks like transcription and translation, yet they remain limited in understanding the paralinguistic aspects of speech cruc…
cs.CL2025
Incorporating Contextual Paralinguistic Understanding in Large Speech-Language Models
Qiongqiong Wang, Hardik B. Sailor, Jeremy H. M. Wong +6
Current large speech language models (Speech-LLMs) often exhibit limitations in empathetic reasoning, primarily due to the absence of training datasets that integrate both contextu…
cs.CL2024
MERaLiON-SpeechEncoder: Towards a Speech Foundation Model for Singapore and Beyond
Muhammad Huzaifah, Geyu Lin, Tianchi Liu +8
This technical report describes the MERaLiON-SpeechEncoder, a foundation model designed to support a wide range of downstream speech applications. Developed as part of Singapore's…