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20162025
most citedConformer-based Target-Speaker Automatic Speech Recognition for Single-Channel Audio

18 citations · 40 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

eess.AS20247 cited

Codec-ASR: Training Performant Automatic Speech Recognition Systems with Discrete Speech Representations

Kunal Dhawan, Nithin Rao Koluguri, Ante Jukić +3

Discrete speech representations have garnered recent attention for their efficacy in training transformer-based models for various speech-related tasks such as automatic speech rec…

cs.CL2024

BESTOW: Efficient and Streamable Speech Language Model with the Best of Two Worlds in GPT and T5

Zhehuai Chen, He Huang, Oleksii Hrinchuk +5

Incorporating speech understanding capabilities into pretrained large-language models has become a vital research direction (SpeechLLM). The previous architectures can be categoriz…

cs.CL20241 cited

Less is More: Accurate Speech Recognition & Translation without Web-Scale Data

Krishna C. Puvvada, Piotr Żelasko, He Huang +9

Recent advances in speech recognition and translation rely on hundreds of thousands of hours of Internet speech data. We argue that state-of-the art accuracy can be reached without…

eess.AS2024

DeSTA: Enhancing Speech Language Models through Descriptive Speech-Text Alignment

Ke-Han Lu, Zhehuai Chen, Szu-Wei Fu +4

Recent speech language models (SLMs) typically incorporate pre-trained speech models to extend the capabilities from large language models (LLMs). In this paper, we propose a Descr…

cs.SD2024

Improving Robustness of LLM-based Speech Synthesis by Learning Monotonic Alignment

Paarth Neekhara, Shehzeen Hussain, Subhankar Ghosh +4

Large Language Model (LLM) based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in handling large speech datasets and generating natural speech for new spea…

eess.AS2024

Instruction Data Generation and Unsupervised Adaptation for Speech Language Models

Vahid Noroozi, Zhehuai Chen, Somshubra Majumdar +3

In this paper, we propose three methods for generating synthetic samples to train and evaluate multimodal large language models capable of processing both text and speech inputs. A…