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Toward Joint Language Modeling for Speech Units and Text
Ju-Chieh Chou, Chung-Ming Chien, Wei-Ning Hsu +5
Speech and text are two major forms of human language. The research community has been focusing on mapping speech to text or vice versa for many years. However, in the field of lan…
Scaling Speech Technology to 1,000+ Languages
Vineel Pratap, Andros Tjandra, Bowen Shi +13
Expanding the language coverage of speech technology has the potential to improve access to information for many more people. However, current speech technology is restricted to ab…
Textually Pretrained Speech Language Models
Michael Hassid, Tal Remez, Tu Anh Nguyen +9
Speech language models (SpeechLMs) process and generate acoustic data only, without textual supervision. In this work, we propose TWIST, a method for training SpeechLMs using a war…
Scaling Laws for Generative Mixed-Modal Language Models
Armen Aghajanyan, Lili Yu, Alexis Conneau +7
Generative language models define distributions over sequences of tokens that can represent essentially any combination of data modalities (e.g., any permutation of image tokens fr…