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Mar 13, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Speech Large Models: Why End-to-End Architecture Beats Traditional ASR‑LLM‑TTS Pipelines

The article defines true speech large models as native end‑to‑end systems that directly map audio to audio, compares them with traditional cascade ASR‑LLM‑TTS pipelines across architecture, error control, latency, paralinguistic perception, long‑context handling and deployment, and surveys the leading open‑source and commercial speech LLMs released in March 2026 with a quick selection guide.