Understanding the Modality Gap: An Empirical Study on the Speech-Text Alignment Mechanism of Large Speech Language Models

Bajian Xiang, Shuaijiang Zhao, Tingwei Guo, Wei Zou. Understanding the Modality Gap: An Empirical Study on the Speech-Text Alignment Mechanism of Large Speech Language Models. In Christos Christodoulopoulos 0001, Tanmoy Chakraborty 0002, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng, editors, Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China, November 4-9, 2025. pages 5187-5202, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. [doi]

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