2025
SpeechTaxi: On Multilingual Semantic Speech Classification
ICASSP 2025accepted
Recent advancements in multilingual speech encoding as well as transcription raise the question of the most effective approach to semantic speech classification. Concretely, can (1) end-to-end (E2E) classifiers obtained by fine-tuning state-of-the-art multilingual speech encoders (MSEs) match or sur…