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cs.CL2026
Scaling Spoken Language Models with Syllabic Speech Tokenization
Nicholas Lee, Cheol Jun Cho, Alan W Black +1
Spoken language models (SLMs) typically discretize speech into high-frame-rate tokens extracted from SSL speech models. As the most successful LMs are based on the Transformer arch…
cs.CL2025
Sylber: Syllabic Embedding Representation of Speech from Raw Audio
Cheol Jun Cho, Nicholas Lee, Akshat Gupta +4
Syllables are compositional units of spoken language that efficiently structure human speech perception and production. However, current neural speech representations lack such str…