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ESPnet-SpeechLM: An Open Speech Language Model Toolkit
Jinchuan Tian, Jiatong Shi, William Chen, Siddhant Arora, Yoshiki Masuyama, Takashi Maekaku, Yihan Wu, Junyi Peng, Shikhar Bharadwaj, Yiwen Zhao, Samuele Cornell, Yifan Peng, Xiang Yue, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Graham Neubig, Shinji Watanabe
We present ESPnet-SpeechLM, an open toolkit designed to democratize the development of speech language models (SpeechLMs) and voice-driven agentic applications. The toolkit standardizes speech processing tasks by framing them as universal sequential modeling problems, encompassing a cohesive workflow of data preprocessing, pre-training, inference, and task evaluation. With ESPnet-SpeechLM, users can easily define task templates and configure key settings, enabling seamless and streamlined SpeechLM development. The toolkit ensures flexibility, efficiency, and scalability by offering highly configurable modules for every stage of the workflow. To illustrate its capabilities, we provide multiple use cases demonstrating how competitive SpeechLMs can be constructed with ESPnet-SpeechLM, including a 1.7B-parameter model pre-trained on both text and speech tasks, across diverse benchmarks. The toolkit and its recipes are fully transparent and reproducible at: https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/speechlm.
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