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Ontology Memory-Augmented ASR Correction for Long Text-Speech Interleaved Conversations

arXiv:2606. 13464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) correction has traditionally focused on isolated utterances or short local contexts.

arXiv Computation and Language
6d ago

DiaLong: Benchmarking Reminiscence in Long-Context Dialogues

DiaLong is a new long‑context dialogue benchmark that tests transformer‑based Large Language Models’ ability to retain and recall memories. The dataset contains 100 human‑created conversations, expanded with LLMs to exceed lengths of existing datasets, and includes a fact‑recall task where models must classify 40 candidate facts as true or false. Experiments show current LLMs and memory‑enhancement methods still struggle, indicating a need for improved memory performance in extended conversations.

By Owen Bianchi, Samer Aslan, Ryunosuke Saito
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 14

Not All Speech Is Intent: Adaptive Self-Correcting Inference Layer for Post-ASR False Wake-Up

The paper introduces ASCIL, a post‑ASR correction framework that re‑evaluates wake‑up intent by combining acoustic embeddings, linguistic cues, device context, and past misclassifications. ASCIL interprets both implicit (hesitation, disengagement, silence) and explicit (cancellation, repetition) signals as noisy indicators of misclassification, enabling online pattern updates without manual annotation. On a proprietary dataset of 3,667 interactions, ASCIL reduces errors by up to 54.27% relative on a session‑disjoint subset and 24.39% at a 0.90 threshold, while adding less than 60 ms of latency and improving intentional acceptance rates.

By Preeti Saraswat, Divya Neelagiri, Anil Yadav
arXiv AI
Sep 4

Listen to the Latents: Self-Correcting Speech Recognition in Large Audio Language Models Through Hidden-State Interactions

The paper introduces Hybrid Search, a method that refines warm-initialized large language model (LLM) based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems by exploiting interactions between ASR hidden states and the base LLM’s hidden states. By identifying tokens with high semantic dependence and selectively correcting them, the approach surpasses traditional global LLM‑correction techniques such as rescoring and late fusion. The study demonstrates that even after warm initialization, LLM‑based ASR models can further benefit from their base LLM during inference.

By Chan-Jan Hsu, Jaeyeon Kim, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Shinji Watanabe, Hung-yi Lee, Carlos Busso
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 22

Rethinking Speech-LLM Integration for ASR: Effective Joint Speech-Text Training by Interleaving

arXiv:2607.01733v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Speech-LLM integration has shown promising results by leveraging extensive textual pretraining, yet its specific benefits for automatic speech reco...

By Ruchao Fan, Yiming Wang, Rui Zhao, Liliang Ren, Keqi Deng, Xiaoyang Chen, Ali Zare, Bo Ren, Yuxuan Hu, Junkun Chen, Yan Huang, Yelong Shen, Jinyu Li
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 11

Beyond Prompting: Efficient and Robust Contextual Biasing for Speech LLMs via Logit-Space Integration (LOGIC)

The paper introduces LOGIC (Logit‑Space Integration for Contextual Biasing), a new framework that injects contextual entity information directly into the decoding layer of Speech Large Language Models, bypassing the limitations of prompt‑based methods. LOGIC operates with constant‑time complexity regardless of the size of the entity list, and experiments with the Phi‑4‑MM model across 11 multilingual locales show an average 9% relative reduction in Entity WER while adding only a 0.30% increase in False Alarm Rate.

By Peidong Wang, Jian Xue, Jinyu Li
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 25

Proactive for Uncertainty: Cause-Aware Error Diagnosis and Interactive Clarification for Spoken Dialogue Systems

The paper introduces a cause-aware error recovery framework for cascaded Automatic Speech Recognition – Large Language Model (ASR‑LLM) pipelines in Spoken Dialogue Systems. It replaces simple ASR confidence filtering with precision‑focused detectors that use deep ASR latent representations to classify token‑level errors into perception, comprehension, and deletion failures. This fine‑grained diagnosis enables the LLM to execute targeted, multi‑turn clarification strategies, leading to a more than two‑fold increase in recall on domain‑shift errors and significant reductions in word error rate and downstream task errors across varied accents, distortions, and domains.

By Yizhou Peng, Ziyang Ma, Changsong Liu, Yi-Wen Chao, Xie Chen, Eng Siong Chng
arXiv AI
Oct 21

Abstract Compression of Conversational Audio Context for LLM-based ASR

arXiv:2603.26246v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Standard LLM-based speech recognition systems process utterances in isolation, limiting their ability to leverage conversational context. Her...

By Shashi Kumar, Esa\'u Villatoro-Tello, Sergio Burdisso, Kadri Hacioglu, Thibault Ba\~neras-Roux, Hasindri Watawana, Dairazalia Sanchez-Cortes, Srikanth Madikeri, Petr Motlicek, Andreas Stolcke
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 2

Efficient ASR Training with Conversations that Never Happened

Conversational ASR for lower-resource languages and niche domains is limited by the scarcity of domain-matched multi-speaker training data. We propose an augmentation pipeline that generates scenario-level dialogues with participant metadata, maps speaker attributes to TTS voice profiles, and assembles synthesized utterances into speaker-aware simulated conversations.

arXiv AI
1d ago

ConMem: Counterfactual Multi-Scenario Probing for Resolving LLM Memory Misalignment

The paper introduces ConMem, an algorithm that uses counterfactual causal inference to improve long‑term memory management in large language model agents. It builds a benchmark called MemAlign with 1,079 curated memory cases that capture various misalignment issues such as over‑generalization, misattribution, and privacy concerns. ConMem generates counterfactual interaction scenarios to audit retention decisions, leading to higher accuracy (75.16%) and better balance than existing methods while preserving personalization.

By Shuning Zhang, Tenghao Ji, Jingruo Chen, Eryue Xu, Bohao Chu, Xin Yi