Speech2Grasp: Data-Efficient Transfer of Text-Conditioned Grasp Detection to Speech in Humanoid Robots
This paper introduces Speech2Grasp, a framework that efficiently transfers text-conditioned models like ALBEF to speech input using a lightweight MLP projector, maintaining semantic discrimination and robustness. Real-world humanoid robot experiments show that Speech2Grasp outperforms cascaded ASR pipelines while reducing inference latency, offering a practical paradigm for extending text-conditioned systems to speech.
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Title:Speech2Grasp: Data-Efficient Transfer of Text-Conditioned Grasp Detection to Speech in Humanoid Robots
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Abstract:Humanoid robots increasingly require multi-modal understanding for natural interaction with humans. Despite the prominence of vision-language models, they generally assume textual rather than the more natural speech inputs. In this paper, we investigate whether a well-established text-conditioned model can be transferred to speech in a data-efficient manner. Using ALBEF as a case study, we conduct diagnostic analyses showing that a lightweight MLP-based projector effectively adapts it to speech, while preserving semantic discrimination and robustness. Motivated by these findings, we introduce Speech2Grasp, a framework for data-efficient transfer of text-conditioned grasp detection to speech. Real-world humanoid robot experiments show that Speech2Grasp outperforms cascaded ASR-based pipeline, while reducing inference latency. Our findings suggest a practical paradigm for extending established text-conditioned systems to speech.
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Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
Cite as: arXiv:2607.26567 [cs.RO]
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.26567
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From: Hung Nguyen [view email] [v1] Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:40:00 UTC (5,292 KB)
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