@inproceedings{xiang-etal-2025-understanding, title = "Understanding the Modality Gap: An Empirical Study on the Speech-Text Alignment Mechanism of Large Speech Language Models", author = "Xiang, Bajian and Zhao, Shuaijiang and Guo, Tingwei and Zou, Wei", editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos and Chakraborty, Tanmoy and Rose, Carolyn and Peng, Violet", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = nov, year = "2025", address = "Suzhou, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/author-page-yu-wang-polytechnic/2025.emnlp-main.262/", doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.262", pages = "5187--5202", ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6" }