@article{bridgingthemodalitygapsoftlydiscretizing, title = {Bridging the Modality Gap: Softly Discretizing Audio Representation for LLM-based Automatic Speech Recognition}, author = {Mu Yang and Szu-Jui Chen and Jiamin Xie and John Hansen}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2506.05706}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05706v1}, }