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Auteurs principaux: Zhang, Yuchen, Shekhar, Ravi, Mouratidis, Haralambos
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18899
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author Zhang, Yuchen
Shekhar, Ravi
Mouratidis, Haralambos
author_facet Zhang, Yuchen
Shekhar, Ravi
Mouratidis, Haralambos
contents Large Language Model (LLM)-powered Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems achieve strong performance with limited resources by linking a frozen speech encoder to a pretrained LLM via a lightweight connector. Prior work trains a separate connector per language, overlooking linguistic relatedness. We propose an efficient and novel connector-sharing strategy based on linguistic family membership, enabling one connector per family, and empirically validate its effectiveness across two multilingual LLMs and two real-world corpora spanning curated and crowd-sourced speech. Our results show that family-based connectors reduce parameter count while improving generalization across domains, offering a practical and scalable strategy for multilingual ASR deployment.
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spellingShingle Language Family Matters: Evaluating LLM-Based ASR Across Linguistic Boundaries
Zhang, Yuchen
Shekhar, Ravi
Mouratidis, Haralambos
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Sound
Large Language Model (LLM)-powered Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems achieve strong performance with limited resources by linking a frozen speech encoder to a pretrained LLM via a lightweight connector. Prior work trains a separate connector per language, overlooking linguistic relatedness. We propose an efficient and novel connector-sharing strategy based on linguistic family membership, enabling one connector per family, and empirically validate its effectiveness across two multilingual LLMs and two real-world corpora spanning curated and crowd-sourced speech. Our results show that family-based connectors reduce parameter count while improving generalization across domains, offering a practical and scalable strategy for multilingual ASR deployment.
title Language Family Matters: Evaluating LLM-Based ASR Across Linguistic Boundaries
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18899