arXiv AI By Eungbeom Kim, Kyogu Lee

Fast Speech Foundation Model Distillation Using Interleaved Stacking

Read the original on arXiv AI →

arXiv:2606. 11766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distilling a large speech foundation model (SFM) into an efficient student model has been successfully applied to low-resource environments.

Machine-generated by The Flow from the publisher's headline and feed description — not written or checked by a human. The full article lives at arXiv AI.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

CAL-MOS: Bridging Layers with Adapters for Robust MOS Prediction Across Speech Foundation Models

arXiv:2609.14956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech Quality Assessment (SQA) is essential for modern speech technologies, and recent non-intrusive SQA predictors increasingly rely on Speech Foun...

By Alef Iury Siqueira Ferreira, Pedro Lustosa Rege Botelho, Fernanda Silva, Daniel Casanova, Rafael Faustino, Frederico Oliveira, Arlindo Galv\~ao Filho, Anderson da Silva Soares
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 17

RT-SEMamba: Real-Time Speech Enhancement Mamba via Progressive Knowledge Distillation

RT-SEMamba is a fully causal speech enhancement model that uses causal time‑frequency Mamba blocks instead of Transformer‑based architectures, allowing efficient long‑form inference with a fixed‑size recurrent state. The authors introduce a progressive knowledge distillation strategy that compresses an 8‑layer teacher into a single‑layer student by jointly distilling spectral outputs and intermediate representations. On the Voicebank‑DEMAND benchmark, the 8‑layer model achieves 3.32 PESQ under a 25 ms latency constraint, while the distilled 1‑layer student improves from 3.06 to 3.18 PESQ, maintains the same steady‑state real‑time factor, and runs 2.64× faster than the teacher.

By Rong Chao, Sung-Feng Huang, Moreno La Quatra, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Wen-Huang Cheng, Szu-Wei Fu, Yu Tsao