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Audio-Native Speech Recognition with a Frozen Discrete-Diffusion Language Model

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Automatic speech recognition is dominated by autoregressive decoders that emit one token at a time. We ask whether a discrete diffusion language model can transcribe speech instead, refining a whole transcript in parallel over a small number of denoising steps.

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