3 papers
cs.CL2026
The Role of Disfluencies in Speech Translation
Maike Züfle, Maria Teleki, Fabian Retkowski +5
Current speech translation systems, including SpeechLLMs, are trained on cleaned text and tend to strip disfluencies like filled pauses and false starts rather than translate them.…
cs.CL2026
Conversational Speech Reveals Structural Robustness Failures in SpeechLLM Backbones
Maria Teleki, Sai Janjur, Haoran Liu +11
LLMs serve as the backbone in SpeechLLMs, yet their behavior on spontaneous conversational input remains poorly understood. Conversational speech contains pervasive disfluencies --…
cs.CL2025
Z-Scores: A Metric for Linguistically Assessing Disfluency Removal
Maria Teleki, Sai Janjur, Haoran Liu +10
Evaluating disfluency removal in speech requires more than aggregate token-level scores. Traditional word-based metrics such as precision, recall, and F1 (E-Scores) capture overall…