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Speaker Attributed Automatic Speech Recognition Using Speech Aware LLMS
Hagai Aronowitz, Zvi Kons, Avihu Dekel +2
Speaker-Attributed Automatic Speech Recognition (SAA) enhances traditional ASR systems by incorporating relative speaker identity tags directly into the transcript (e.g., [Speaker…
Speech Synthesis From Continuous Features Using Per-Token Latent Diffusion
Arnon Turetzky, Avihu Dekel, Nimrod Shabtay +5
We present SALAD, a zero-shot TTS autoregressive model operating over continuous speech representations. SALAD utilizes a per-token diffusion process to refine and predict continuo…
Spoken question answering for visual queries
Nimrod Shabtay, Zvi Kons, Avihu Dekel +3
Question answering (QA) systems are designed to answer natural language questions. Visual QA (VQA) and Spoken QA (SQA) systems extend the textual QA system to accept visual and spo…
Granite-speech: open-source speech-aware LLMs with strong English ASR capabilities
George Saon, Avihu Dekel, Alexander Brooks +21
Granite-speech LLMs are compact and efficient speech language models specifically designed for English ASR and automatic speech translation (AST). The models were trained by modali…