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Main Authors: Xie, Jiamin, Lin, Ju, Huang, Yiteng, Vuong, Tyler, Lin, Zhaojiang, Yang, Zhaojun, Su, Peng, Rawat, Prashant, Srivastava, Sangeeta, Sun, Ming, Metze, Florian
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14973
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author Xie, Jiamin
Lin, Ju
Huang, Yiteng
Vuong, Tyler
Lin, Zhaojiang
Yang, Zhaojun
Su, Peng
Rawat, Prashant
Srivastava, Sangeeta
Sun, Ming
Metze, Florian
author_facet Xie, Jiamin
Lin, Ju
Huang, Yiteng
Vuong, Tyler
Lin, Zhaojiang
Yang, Zhaojun
Su, Peng
Rawat, Prashant
Srivastava, Sangeeta
Sun, Ming
Metze, Florian
contents Recent studies have demonstrated that prompting large language models (LLM) with audio encodings enables effective speech recognition capabilities. However, the ability of Speech LLMs to comprehend and process multi-channel audio with spatial cues remains a relatively uninvestigated area of research. In this work, we present directional-SpeechLlama, a novel approach that leverages the microphone array of smart glasses to achieve directional speech recognition, source localization, and bystander cross-talk suppression. To enhance the model's ability to understand directivity, we propose two key techniques: serialized directional output training (S-DOT) and contrastive direction data augmentation (CDDA). Experimental results show that our proposed directional-SpeechLlama effectively captures the relationship between textual cues and spatial audio, yielding strong performance in both speech recognition and source localization tasks.
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spellingShingle Thinking in Directivity: Speech Large Language Model for Multi-Talker Directional Speech Recognition
Xie, Jiamin
Lin, Ju
Huang, Yiteng
Vuong, Tyler
Lin, Zhaojiang
Yang, Zhaojun
Su, Peng
Rawat, Prashant
Srivastava, Sangeeta
Sun, Ming
Metze, Florian
Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Recent studies have demonstrated that prompting large language models (LLM) with audio encodings enables effective speech recognition capabilities. However, the ability of Speech LLMs to comprehend and process multi-channel audio with spatial cues remains a relatively uninvestigated area of research. In this work, we present directional-SpeechLlama, a novel approach that leverages the microphone array of smart glasses to achieve directional speech recognition, source localization, and bystander cross-talk suppression. To enhance the model's ability to understand directivity, we propose two key techniques: serialized directional output training (S-DOT) and contrastive direction data augmentation (CDDA). Experimental results show that our proposed directional-SpeechLlama effectively captures the relationship between textual cues and spatial audio, yielding strong performance in both speech recognition and source localization tasks.
title Thinking in Directivity: Speech Large Language Model for Multi-Talker Directional Speech Recognition
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14973