2 papers
cs.SD2026
WavLink: Compact Audio-Text Embeddings with a Global Whisper Token
Gokul Karthik Kumar, Ludovick Lepauloux, Hakim Hacid
Whisper has become the de-facto encoder for extracting general-purpose audio features in large audio-language models, where a 30-second clip is typically represented by 1500 frame…
cs.SD2026
Competitive Audio-Language Models with Data-Efficient Single-Stage Training on Public Data
Gokul Karthik Kumar, Rishabh Saraf, Ludovick Lepauloux +3
Large language models (LLMs) have transformed NLP, yet their integration with audio remains underexplored despite audio's centrality to human communication. We introduce Falcon3-Au…