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VIBEVOICE-ASR Technical Report research paper by Microsoft, 2026

Microsoft · Foundation models · Mar 14, 2026 · 31 citations · 25 upvotes · unverified

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VibeVoice-ASR is a unified end-to-end speech understanding framework that processes long-form audio without chunking, supports multiple languages and code-switching, and uses prompt-based context injection for improved domain-specific accuracy.

By Zhiliang Peng, Jianwei Yu, Yaoyao Chang and 21 more · arXiv 2601.18184 · PDF

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arXiv.org
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31, 4 influential · Semantic Scholar
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25 · Hugging Face
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CitationsNov 2, 2026Influential citations rose from 3 to 4.
CitationsNov 2, 2026Citations rose from 28 to 31.
CitationsOct 5, 2026Citations rose from 26 to 28.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 3 influential citations.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 26 citations.
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