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Fine-Tune W2V2-Bert for low-resource ASR with 🤗 Transformers

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

Generative vs. Encoder Large Language Models for ASR Evaluation: A Comparative Study

The paper compares encoder‑based and generative decoder‑based large language models for evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR). It examines BERTScore and SemDist across various LLMs, layers, and pooling strategies, finding that both metrics can strongly correlate with human judgments when properly configured. For generative LLMs, the study explores pairwise hypothesis selection via prompting and direct error classification, showing that while encoder‑based metrics remain competitive, generative models excel in hypothesis comparison and enhance interpretability of ASR evaluation.

By Thibault Ba\~neras-Roux, Shashi Kumar, Driss Khalil, Sergio Burdisso, Petr Motlicek, Shiran Liu, Mickael Rouvier, Jane Wottawa, Richard Dufour