New AI Model Spire Adds Speech Understanding To Text-Only LLMs
Researchers introduce Spire, a model that adds speech understanding to text-only LLMs without sacrificing existing text capabilities. Achieves 87% of Whisper's performance while maintaining LLM abilities.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called New AI Model Lets Language Models Understand Speech While Keeping Text Abilities Intact. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow us on Twitter. Overview Introduces Spire, a model adding speech understanding to text-only LLMs Uses a novel speech tokenizer to convert speech into text-like tokens Achieves strong performance without fine-tuning the base LLM Shows 87% of Whisper's performance while maintaining LLM capabilities Demonstrates effectiveness on both general speech and dialect...