arXiv:2609.17981v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Speech Large Language Models (Speech-LLMs), typically built from a pre-trained speech encoder, a modality projector, and an LLM fine-tuned with Low-R...
By Mohan Shi, Zilai Wang, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Kaiyuan Zhang, Eray Eren, Abeer Alwan
The paper introduces Hybrid Search, a method that refines warm-initialized large language model (LLM) based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems by exploiting interactions between ASR hidden states and the base LLM’s hidden states. By identifying tokens with high semantic dependence and selectively correcting them, the approach surpasses traditional global LLM‑correction techniques such as rescoring and late fusion. The study demonstrates that even after warm initialization, LLM‑based ASR models can further benefit from their base LLM during inference.
By Chan-Jan Hsu, Jaeyeon Kim, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Shinji Watanabe, Hung-yi Lee, Carlos Busso
The paper introduces a new strategy for connecting large language models (LLMs) to speech encoders in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems by sharing a single connector across languages within the same linguistic family. This approach reduces the number of parameters needed compared to training a separate connector for each language, while improving generalization across different domains and real‑world corpora. Experiments with two multilingual LLMs and two speech datasets demonstrate that family‑based connectors are both efficient and effective for multilingual ASR deployment.
By Yuchen Zhang, Ravi Shekhar, Haralambos Mouratidis
arXiv:2509.10452v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Pretrained automatic speech recognition (ASR) models such as Whisper perform well but still need domain adaptation to handle unseen parlance....
By Akshat Pandey, Karun Kumar, Raphael Tang
arXiv:2603. 05121v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speech Large Language Models route speech encoder representations into an LLM decoder that typically accounts for over 90% of total parameters.
By Adel Moumen, Guangzhi Sun, Philip C Woodland
arXiv:2609.15758v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Extending large-scale multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) models to low-resource languages remains challenging. Model performance is skewed...
By Thai Thi Thanh Thao Dang, Mengjie Qian, Kate Knill
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:2508. 05149v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in handling spoken inputs for high-resource languages, reaching state-of-the-art performance in various tasks.
By Seraphina Fong, Marco Matassoni, Alessio Brutti
arXiv:2608.29239v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-resource ASR remains difficult because scarce transcripts provide limited supervised evidence for target-side generation. To address this gap, we p...
By Kuan-Tang Huang, Cheng-Yeh Yang, Chien-Chun Wang, Hung-Shin Lee, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen
arXiv:2602. 20967v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) degrades severely in noisy environments.
By Haoyang Li, Changsong Liu, Wei Rao, Hao Shi, Sakriani Sakti, Eng Siong Chng
arXiv:2603. 10827v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speech-aware large language models (LLMs) can accept speech inputs, yet their training objectives largely emphasize linguistic content or specific fields such as emotions or the speaker's gender, leaving it unclear whether they encode speaker identity.
By Thomas Thebaud, Yuzhe Wang, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Jesus Villalba-Lopez, Najim Dehak
arXiv:2606. 03957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational ASR for lower-resource languages and niche domains is limited by the scarcity of domain-matched multi-speaker training data.
By M\'at\'e Gedeon, P\'eter Mihajlik