Speech LLMs either transcribe to text or model audio directly as discrete tokens. The signal is the semantic-vs-acoustic token split and why end-to-end audio models beat ASR-plus-LLM pipelines on latency and prosody.
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Speech LLMs either transcribe to text or model audio directly as discrete tokens. The signal is the semantic-vs-acoustic token split and why end-to-end audio models beat ASR-plus-LLM pipelines on latency and prosody.
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