Large Language Models, like GPT-3, have revolutionized Natural Language Processing by scaling to billions of parameters and incorporating extensive datasets. Researchers have also introduced Speech Language Models directly trained on speech, leading to the development of SPIRIT-LM. This multimodal language model seamlessly integrates text and speech, demonstrating potential impacts on various applications.
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Introduction to SPIRIT-LM
Promoting Large Language Models (LLMs) has become a standard practice in Natural Language Processing (NLP) after the introduction of GPT-3. SPIRIT-LM is a foundational multimodal language model that seamlessly integrates text and speech, offering practical solutions for broad language understanding and generation capabilities.
Advancements in Language Models
Recent studies have contributed to advancing the field of Speech Language Models (SpeechLMs), which are language models trained directly on speech. SPIRIT-LM is available in two variants: a BASE version employing speech semantic units and an EXPRESSIVE version that incorporates pitch and style units to model expressivity alongside semantic units.
Key Contributions of SPIRIT-LM
SPIRIT-LM introduces a unified language model capable of generating both speech and text, demonstrating the ability to learn new tasks in a few-shot learning setting across text, speech, and crossmodal tasks. Additionally, it proposes an expressive variant, SPIRIT-LM-EXPRESSIVE, which is the first language model capable of preserving the sentiment of both text and speech prompts within and across modalities.
Impact and Potential
Advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Speech Language Models (SpeechLMs) have the potential to profoundly impact areas such as conversational agents, virtual assistants, language translation, and accessibility tools, leading to more lifelike interactions between humans and machines.
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