@inproceedings{yeh-etal-2026-meld,
    title = "{MELD}: Mel-Spectrogram-Based Speech Language Modeling with Discrete Latent Variables",
    author = "Yeh, Sung-Lin  and
      Zhou, Wei  and
      Keren, Gil  and
      Le, Duc  and
      Meng, Zhong  and
      Tang, Hao  and
      Mahadeokar, Jay  and
      Kalinli, Ozlem  and
      Mourachko, Alexandre",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1584/",
    pages = "36038--36050",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}