papersSEP 12 04:00 UTC
RetroThinker adds retrospective thinking to speech LLMs
A new arXiv paper introduces RetroThinker, a method that lets speech large language models revisit and revise earlier reasoning steps. Speech LLMs cut latency and preserve vocal cues lost in pipelines that combine speech recognition with text models, but they still trail text-only systems in capability. The work aims to narrow that gap by adapting retrospective reasoning to the speech setting.