Aldeneh, Zakaria

3 publications

ICLR 2026 Closing the Gap Between Text and Speech Understanding in LLMs Santiago Cuervo, Skyler Seto, Maureen de Seyssel, Richard He Bai, Zijin Gu, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Navdeep Jaitly, Zakaria Aldeneh

ICML 2025 A Variational Framework for Improving Naturalness in Generative Spoken Language Models Li-Wei Chen, Takuya Higuchi, Zakaria Aldeneh, Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz, Alexander Rudnicky

NeurIPS 2024 Learning Spatially-Aware Language and Audio Embeddings Bhavika Devnani, Skyler Seto, Zakaria Aldeneh, Alessandro Toso, Elena Menyaylenko, Barry-John Theobald, Jonathan Sheaffer, Miguel Sarabia