Turning Speech Language Models into Multilingual Listeners

arXiv:2609.33204 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-09-27

Code: https://github.com/quocanh34/Bud500

Project page: https://multispeech.github.io

Terminology

• Benchmark — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Model — 7× in this paper
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Automatic Speech Recognition — 3× in this paper
• Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Automatic Speech Translation — 2× in this paper
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Spoken Question Answering — 2× in this paper
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• LoRA Adapters — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multimodal Inputs — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Qwen2-Audio Technical Report
• Phi-4-Mini Technical Report: Compact yet Powerful Multimodal Language Models via Mixture-of-LoRAs
• Aya Vision: Advancing the Frontier of Multilingual Multimodality
• BLAB: Brutally Long Audio Bench
• AHELM: A Holistic Evaluation of Audio-Language Models
• AIR-Bench: Benchmarking Large Audio-Language Models via Generative Comprehension
• VoiceBench: Benchmarking LLM-Based Voice Assistants
• Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
• GPT-4 Technical Report
• Qwen2.5-Omni Technical Report
• Mini-Omni: Language Models Can Hear, Talk While Thinking in Streaming
• Aya Expanse: Combining Research Breakthroughs for a New Multilingual Frontier
• Instruction Tuning with GPT-4
• No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation
• Command A: An Enterprise-Ready Large Language Model

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