LaSR: Context-Aware Speech Recognition via Latent Reasoning

LaSR (Latent Speech Reasoning) is a new training paradigm for context‑aware speech recognition that uses a latent reasoning trajectory instead of explicit intermediate tokens. It aligns chain‑of‑thought supervision around the acoustic region of target words and introduces latent reasoning periods for grounding context and guiding transcription transitions. Experiments on Fun‑Audio‑Chat show that LaSR improves terminology recognition without added latency and outperforms standard fine‑tuning baselines, demonstrating the promise of latent reasoning for efficient, context‑aware speech assistants.

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• llms
• fine-tuning
• multimodal
• benchmarks
• safety