Roadmap towards Superhuman Speech Understanding using Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13268v1
• Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 06:44:06 GMT
• Title: Roadmap towards Superhuman Speech Understanding using Large Language Models
• Authors: Fan Bu, Yuhao Zhang, Xidong Wang, Benyou Wang, Qun Liu, Haizhou Li,
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) integrate speech and audio data. Recent advances, such as GPT-4o, highlight the potential for end-to-end speech LLMs. We propose a five-level roadmap, ranging from basic automatic speech recognition (ASR) to advanced superhuman models.
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• Abstract: The success of large language models (LLMs) has prompted efforts to integrate speech and audio data, aiming to create general foundation models capable of processing both textual and non-textual inputs. Recent advances, such as GPT-4o, highlight the potential for end-to-end speech LLMs, which preserves non-semantic information and world knowledge for deeper speech understanding. To guide the development of speech LLMs, we propose a five-level roadmap, ranging from basic automatic speech recognition (ASR) to advanced superhuman models capable of integrating non-semantic information with abstract acoustic knowledge for complex tasks. Moreover, we design a benchmark, SAGI Bechmark, that standardizes critical aspects across various tasks in these five levels, uncovering challenges in using abstract acoustic knowledge and completeness of capability. Our findings reveal gaps in handling paralinguistic cues and abstract acoustic knowledge, and we offer future directions. This paper outlines a roadmap for advancing speech LLMs, introduces a benchmark for evaluation, and provides key insights into their current limitations and potential.

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