Zero-Shot Spoken Language Understanding with SLAM-ASR: What Do Monolingual ASR-Trained Linear Projectors Enable?

Edwin Arkel Rios, Sneh Sourabh, Jocelyn Zaruma +3

The SLAM-ASR framework connects the features of a frozen speech encoder as input to a frozen LLM decoder to enable speech transcription. In this work we ask whether this training-o…