9 papers
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…
Unlocking Cognitive Capabilities and Analyzing the Perception-Logic Trade-off
Longyin Zhang, Shuo Sun, Yingxu He +15
Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) pursue omni-perception capabilities, yet integrating robust sensory grounding with complex reasoning remains a chall…
MERaLiON-SER: Robust Speech Emotion Recognition Model for English and SEA Languages
Hardik B. Sailor, Aw Ai Ti, Chen Fang Yih Nancy +26
We present MERaLiON-SER, a robust speech emotion recognition model designed for English and Southeast Asian languages. The model is trained using a hybrid objective combining weigh…
Beyond Classification: Towards Speech Emotion Reasoning with Multitask AudioLLMs
Wenyu Zhang, Yingxu He, Geyu Lin +9
Audio Large Language Models (AudioLLMs) have achieved strong results in semantic tasks like speech recognition and translation, but remain limited in modeling paralinguistic cues s…
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…
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…