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George Saon

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ibm-granite

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https://research.ibm.com/people/george-saon

AI & ML interests

ASR

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upvoted an article about 22 hours ago

Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality

liked a model about 22 hours ago

ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview

liked a model about 22 hours ago

ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-30b-preview

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authored a paper 2 months ago

Self-Speculative Decoding for LLM-based ASR with CTC Encoder Drafts

Paper • 2603.11243 • Published Mar 11

authored 2 papers about 1 year ago

Semi-Autoregressive Streaming ASR With Label Context

Paper • 2309.10926 • Published Sep 19, 2023 • 1

Granite-speech: open-source speech-aware LLMs with strong English ASR capabilities

Paper • 2505.08699 • Published May 13, 2025 • 2