8 papers
VowelPrompt: Hearing Speech Emotions from Text via Vowel-level Prosodic Augmentation
Yancheng Wang, Osama Hanna, Ruiming Xie +11
Emotion recognition in speech presents a complex multimodal challenge, requiring comprehension of both linguistic content and vocal expressivity, particularly prosodic features suc…
Can Speech LLMs Think while Listening?
Yi-Jen Shih, Desh Raj, Chunyang Wu +6
Recent advances in speech large language models (speech LLMs) have enabled seamless spoken interactions, but these systems still struggle with complex reasoning tasks. Previously,…
Dialect Normalization using Large Language Models and Morphological Rules
Antonios Dimakis, John Pavlopoulos, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Natural language understanding systems struggle with low-resource languages, including many dialects of high-resource ones. Dialect-to-standard normalization attempts to tackle thi…
Frozen Large Language Models Can Perceive Paralinguistic Aspects of Speech
Wonjune Kang, Junteng Jia, Chunyang Wu +8
This work studies the capabilities of a large language model (LLM) to understand paralinguistic aspects of speech without fine-tuning its weights. We utilize an end-to-end system w…
When Every Token Counts: Optimal Segmentation for Low-Resource Language Models
Bharath Raj, Garvit Suri, Vikrant Dewangan +1
Traditional greedy tokenization methods have been a critical step in Natural Language Processing (NLP), influencing how text is converted into tokens and directly impacting model p…
CJST: CTC Compressor based Joint Speech and Text Training for Decoder-Only ASR
Wei Zhou, Junteng Jia, Leda Sari +2
CTC compressor can be an effective approach to integrate audio encoders to decoder-only models, which has gained growing interest for different speech applications. In this work, w…