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Main Authors: Zhao, Zihan, Jiang, Yiyang, Liu, Heyang, Wang, Yanfeng, Wang, Yu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10390
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author Zhao, Zihan
Jiang, Yiyang
Liu, Heyang
Wang, Yanfeng
Wang, Yu
author_facet Zhao, Zihan
Jiang, Yiyang
Liu, Heyang
Wang, Yanfeng
Wang, Yu
contents While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated commendable performance across a myriad of domains and tasks, existing LLMs still exhibit a palpable deficit in handling multimodal functionalities, especially for the Spoken Question Answering (SQA) task which necessitates precise alignment and deep interaction between speech and text features. To address the SQA challenge on LLMs, we initially curated the free-form and open-ended LibriSQA dataset from Librispeech, comprising Part I with natural conversational formats and Part II encompassing multiple-choice questions followed by answers and analytical segments. Both parts collectively include 107k SQA pairs that cover various topics. Given the evident paucity of existing speech-text LLMs, we propose a lightweight, end-to-end framework to execute the SQA task on the LibriSQA, witnessing significant results. By reforming ASR into the SQA format, we further substantiate our framework's capability in handling ASR tasks. Our empirical findings bolster the LLMs' aptitude for aligning and comprehending multimodal information, paving the way for the development of universal multimodal LLMs. The dataset and demo can be found at https://github.com/ZihanZhaoSJTU/LibriSQA.
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spellingShingle LibriSQA: A Novel Dataset and Framework for Spoken Question Answering with Large Language Models
Zhao, Zihan
Jiang, Yiyang
Liu, Heyang
Wang, Yanfeng
Wang, Yu
Computation and Language
While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated commendable performance across a myriad of domains and tasks, existing LLMs still exhibit a palpable deficit in handling multimodal functionalities, especially for the Spoken Question Answering (SQA) task which necessitates precise alignment and deep interaction between speech and text features. To address the SQA challenge on LLMs, we initially curated the free-form and open-ended LibriSQA dataset from Librispeech, comprising Part I with natural conversational formats and Part II encompassing multiple-choice questions followed by answers and analytical segments. Both parts collectively include 107k SQA pairs that cover various topics. Given the evident paucity of existing speech-text LLMs, we propose a lightweight, end-to-end framework to execute the SQA task on the LibriSQA, witnessing significant results. By reforming ASR into the SQA format, we further substantiate our framework's capability in handling ASR tasks. Our empirical findings bolster the LLMs' aptitude for aligning and comprehending multimodal information, paving the way for the development of universal multimodal LLMs. The dataset and demo can be found at https://github.com/ZihanZhaoSJTU/LibriSQA.
title LibriSQA: A Novel Dataset and Framework for Spoken Question Answering with Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10390