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Apple researchers detect code-switching directly from speech encoders
ResearchOctober 14, 2026

Apple researchers detect code-switching directly from speech encoders

Apple researchers have proposed a lightweight method that detects code-switching, the alternation between languages within one utterance, directly from speech audio.…

Apple Study: Teaching Speech Models to Tell Languages Apart Narrows Multilingual Gap
ResearchOctober 2, 2026

Apple Study: Teaching Speech Models to Tell Languages Apart Narrows Multilingual Gap

Apple researchers report that strengthening a speech model's ability to discriminate between languages during pretraining reduces, and on some measures closes, the…