Recent advancements in language modeling have led to the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) capable of various natural language processing tasks. Despite their success in text-based tasks, applying LLMs to the speech domain remains limited and challenging. This paper presents BLOOMZMMS, a novel model that integrates a multilingual LLM with a multilingual speech encoder, aiming to harness the capabilities of LLMs for speech recognition and beyond. Utilizing a multi-instructional training approach, we demonstrate the transferability of linguistic knowledge from the text to the speech modality. Our experiments, conducted on 1900 hours of transcribed data from 139 languages, establish that a multilingual speech representation can be effectively learned and aligned with a multilingual LLM. While this learned representation initially shows limitations in task generalization, we address this issue by generating synthetic targets in a multi-instructional style. Our zero-shot evaluation results confirm the robustness of our approach across multiple tasks, including speech translation and multilingual spoken language understanding, thereby opening new avenues for applying LLMs in the speech domain.

利用多语言语言模型与多语言语音编码器，本研究提出BLOOMZMMS，旨在为语音识别及其它领域利用大型语言模型的能力。通过多指令训练方法，我们验证了从文本到语音模态的语言知识的可传递性。实验证明，可以有效地学习并使多语言语音表征与多语言语言模型对齐。尽管初始表征在任务泛化方面存在局限性，但我们通过生成多指令样式的合成目标解决了这个问题。零样本评估结果证实了我们的方法在多种任务上的强大鲁棒性，包括语音翻译和多语言口语理解，从而为语音领域应用大型语言模型开辟了新的途径。

通过多指令训练教授一种多语言的大型语言模型理解多语言语音