2 papers
cs.CL2025
From TOWER to SPIRE: Adding the Speech Modality to a Translation-Specialist LLM
Kshitij Ambilduke, Ben Peters, Sonal Sannigrahi +5
We introduce Spire, a speech-augmented language model (LM) capable of both translating and transcribing speech input from English into 10 other languages as well as translating tex…
cs.CL2024
Enhancing Context Through Contrast
Kshitij Ambilduke, Aneesh Shetye, Diksha Bagade +4
Neural machine translation benefits from semantically rich representations. Considerable progress in learning such representations has been achieved by language modelling and mutua…