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Oct 2026
Neural Representations, Natural Connections: What Transfers From Human Speech Foundation Models to Animal Vocalizations?
Speech-pretrained models have shown promise in animal bioacoustics, but the factors governing their cross-species transfer remain poorly understood. We evaluate 15 frozen encoders spanning monolingual and multilingual speech, speaker verification, animal bioacoustics, and general audio on caller identification across f...
Tomás Arias-Vergara, Christopher Hauer, Héloïse Brotier et al.
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