Preprint
Aug 2026
Do Spoken Language Models Hear Speech as They Read Text? Bridging Structural Gaps Between Speech and Text
Spoken Language Models (SLMs) generate textual responses directly from speech, offering an alternative to cascaded systems. Despite recent advances, existing SLMs still exhibit weaker instruction-following behavior and limited generalization across diverse tasks compared to text-based language models. Our analysis show...
Hyeonyu Kim, Hwayeon Kim, Youngwon Choi et al.
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