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cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

Direct Preference Optimization for English-Mandarin Code-Switching Speech Recognition in Audio LLMs

Trung Nguyen Quang, Cheng Yi Lewis Won, Minh Duc Pham +3

Audio large language models (Audio LLMs) exhibit systematic failures in transcribing code-switching speech despite strong multilingual capabilities. Focusing on English-Mandarin, w…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2025

MERaLiON-AudioLLM: Bridging Audio and Language with Large Language Models

Yingxu He, Zhuohan Liu, Shuo Sun +5

We introduce MERaLiON-AudioLLM (Multimodal Empathetic Reasoning and Learning in One Network), the first speech-text model tailored for Singapore's multilingual and multicultural la…

cs.CL2025

Advancing Singlish Understanding: Bridging the Gap with Datasets and Multimodal Models

Bin Wang, Xunlong Zou, Shuo Sun +6

Singlish, a Creole language rooted in English, is a key focus in linguistic research within multilingual and multicultural contexts. However, its spoken form remains underexplored,…