2 papers
eess.AS2026
Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models
Yun-Shao Tsai, Chun-Wei Chen, Chee-En Yu +2
Sound symbolism, the human tendency to map speech sounds to perceptual qualities such as roundness or sharpness, arises primarily from the acoustics of speech rather than spelling.…
eess.AS2026
CAAD: Contrastive Audio-Aware Distillation for Efficient Speech Language Models
Chun-Wei Chen, Tzu-Quan Lin, Ke-Han Lu +2
Speech Language Models achieve reasoning capabilities, but are often hindered by massive parameter counts and a tendency to prioritize linguistic priors over acoustic features. Whi…