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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models

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This paper cites Hinton, J.

Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Hinton, J

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Arbitrariness, iconicity, and systematicity in language,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Gestalt psychology,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Synaesthesia — a window into perception, thought and language,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models An ethological perspective on common cross-language utilization of F0 of voice,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models A study in phonetic symbolism

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This paper cites Stimulus parameters underlying sound-symbolic mapping of auditory pseudowords to visual shapes,.

Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Stimulus parameters underlying sound-symbolic mapping of auditory pseudowords to visual shapes,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Generating images from spoken descriptions,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Audio flamingo 3: Advancing audio intelligence with fully open large audio language models,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Step-Audio 2 Technical Report

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Kimi-Audio Technical Report

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This paper cites MiniCPM-o 4.5: Towards Real-Time Full-Duplex Omni-Modal Interaction.

Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models MiniCPM-o 4.5: Towards Real-Time Full-Duplex Omni-Modal Interaction

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Towards holistic evaluation of large audio-language models: A comprehensive survey,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Qwen3-Omni Technical Report

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Kiki or bouba? sound symbolism in vision-and-language models,

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This paper cites Evidence for systematic semantic structure in individual phonemes.

Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Evidence for systematic semantic structure in individual phonemes

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Do language models associate sound with meaning? a multimodal study of sound symbolism,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Interpreting GPT: the logit lens,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Dynamic-SUPERB phase-2: A collaboratively expanding benchmark for measuring the capabilities of spoken language models with 180 tasks,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models V oicebench: Benchmarking llm-based voice assistants,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Speech-IFEval: Evaluating Instruction-Following and Quantifying Catastrophic Forgetting in Speech-Aware Language Mod- els,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Listen, think, and understand,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models AudioBench: A universal benchmark for audio large language models,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models MMAU: A Massive Multi-Task Audio Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models MMAU-Pro: A Challenging and Comprehensive Benchmark for Holistic Evaluation of Audio General Intelligence

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Dynamic-superb: To- wards a dynamic, collaborative, and comprehensive instruction-tuning benchmark for speech,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Echomind: An interrelated multi-level benchmark for evaluating empathetic speech language models,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Investigating iconicity in vision-and-language models: A case study of the bouba/kiki effect in japanese models,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Analyzing the sensibility of visual language models using an evolving image generation system: Focusing on color impressions and sound symbolism,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models With ears to see and eyes to hear: Sound symbolism experiments with multimodal large language models,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Sound to meaning mappings in the bouba-kiki effect,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Correlation calculated from faulty data,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Some experimental results in the correlation of mental abilities 1,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models The detection of disease clustering and a generalized regression approach,

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Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models Gemma 4 model card,

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