3 papers
cs.CL2026
OpenBibleTTS: Large-Scale Speech Resources and TTS Models for Low-Resource Languages
David Guzmán, Luel Hagos Beyene, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi +3
Recent advances in neural text-to-speech (TTS) and multilingual speech generation have substantially improved synthetic speech quality, yet these gains remain unevenly distributed…
cs.CL2026
MERLIN: Multi-Stage Curriculum Alignment for Multilingual Encoder-LLM Integration in Cross-Lingual Reasoning
Kosei Uemura, David Guzmán, Quang Phuoc Nguyen +3
Large language models excel in English but still struggle with complex reasoning in many low-resource languages (LRLs). Existing encoder-plus-decoder methods such as LangBridge and…
cs.CL2025
AlignFreeze: Navigating the Impact of Realignment on the Layers of Multilingual Models Across Diverse Languages
Steve Bakos, Félix Gaschi, David Guzmán +3
Realignment techniques are often employed to enhance cross-lingual transfer in multilingual language models, still, they can sometimes degrade performance in languages that differ…