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May 27, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

The Next Breakthrough for Speech LLMs: Turning Your Voice Model into a Prosody‑Aware Text Model

This article analyzes the CUHK paper that proposes TextPro‑SLM, a prosody‑aware text LLM architecture that reduces the speech‑text modality gap to as low as 0.7% using only about 1,000 hours of audio data, outperforming larger commercial models on semantic and prosody tasks.