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Does Translation-Enhanced Speech Encoder Pre-training Affect Speech LLMs?

Connecting a pre-trained speech encoder to a Large Language Model (LLM) is the standard architecture for building Speech LLMs. However, a structural misalignment exists between the encoder and the LLM.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 22

Rethinking Speech-LLM Integration for ASR: Effective Joint Speech-Text Training by Interleaving

arXiv:2607.01733v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Speech-LLM integration has shown promising results by leveraging extensive textual pretraining, yet its specific benefits for automatic speech reco...

By Ruchao Fan, Yiming Wang, Rui Zhao, Liliang Ren, Keqi Deng, Xiaoyang Chen, Ali Zare, Bo Ren, Yuxuan Hu, Junkun Chen, Yan Huang, Yelong Shen, Jinyu Li
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 14

Kraken: LLM-based Speech-to-Speech Translation via Low-bitrate VQ and Dual-path Source Conditioning

arXiv:2609.13045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has advanced significantly with speech LLMs, offering the potential for joint optimization and preserving non-lingu...

By Hayato Futami, Hassan Shahmohammadi, Tushar Dhyani, Alkis Koudounas, Rapha\"el Lafargue, Yosuke Kashiwagi, Quentin Jodelet, Emiru Tsunoo