Revolutionizing Voice AI: The Breakthroughs in Speech Language Models (SpeechLMs) That Are Redefining Human-Like Interaction

Recent Advances in Speech Language Models: A Comprehensive Technical Survey The Evolution of Voice AI 🎉 Cutting-Edge Research Alert: Our comprehensive survey paper “Recent Advances in Speech Language Models” has been accepted for publication at ACL 2025, the premier natural language processing conference. This work systematically examines Speech Language Models (SpeechLMs) – transformative AI systems enabling end-to-end voice conversations with human-like fluidity. [Full Paper] Why SpeechLMs Matter Traditional voice assistants follow a fragmented ASR (Speech Recognition) → LLM (Language Processing) → TTS (Speech Synthesis) pipeline with inherent limitations: Information Loss: Conversion to text strips vocal emotions and intonations Error Propagation: …