Papers by Kunal Pasad
Speech-Hands: A Self-Reflection Voice Agentic Approach to Speech Recognition and Audio Reasoning with Omni Perception (2026.acl-long)
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Zhen Wan, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Jinchuan Tian, Hanrong Ye, Ankita Pasad, Szu-Wei Fu, Arushi Goel, Ryo Hachiuma, Shizhe Diao, Kunal Dhawan, Sreyan Ghosh, Yusuke Hirota, Zhehuai Chen, Rafael Valle, Chenhui Chu, Shinji Watanabe, Boris Ginsburg, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang
| Challenge: | naively fine-tuning an omni-model on speech recognition and external sound understanding tasks often degrades performance . Xie and Wu's framework, Speech-Hands, recasts the problem as an explicit self-reflection decision. |
| Approach: | They propose a voice-agentic framework that learns one critical omni-understanding skill: trusting itself versus external audio perception. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline models on the OpenASR leaderboard by 12.1% WER and high F1 on audio QA decisions. |
Let’s Play Across Cultures: A Large Multilingual, Multicultural Benchmark for Assessing Language Models’ Understanding of Sports (2025.emnlp-main)
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Punit Kumar Singh, Nishant Kumar, Akash Ghosh, Kunal Pasad, Khushi Soni, Manisha Jaishwal, Sriparna Saha, Syukron Abu Ishaq Alfarozi, Asres Temam Abagissa, Kitsuchart Pasupa, Haiqin Yang, Jose G Moreno
| Challenge: | Language Models (LMs) are primarily evaluated on globally popular sports, often overlooking regional and indigenous sporting traditions. |
| Approach: | They propose to use multiple-choice questions (MCQs) to assess LMs' understanding of traditional sports across 60 countries and 6 continents. |
| Outcome: | The new benchmark will be publicly available, fostering research in culturally aware AI systems. |