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MERaLiON-GR: Speech Gender Recognition Model for English and SEA Languages
Qiongqiong Wang, Ai Ti Aw, Nancy F. Chen +18
We present MERaLiON-GR, a speech gender recognition system that performs binary classification (female / male) on English and Southeast Asian (SEA) languages. The model finetunes M…
Bridging Linguistic Gaps: Cross-Lingual Mapping in Pre-Training and Dataset for Enhanced Multilingual LLM Performance
Weihua Zheng, Chang Liu, Zhengyuan Liu +5
Multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with cross-lingual tasks due to data imbalances between high-resource and low-resource languages, as well as monolingual bias in…
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…
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…
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…