arXiv Computation and Language
6d ago

TRILOGUE: A Trilingual Spoken Dialogue Fact-Checking Benchmark with Evidence and Paired Audio

TRILOGUE is a new trilingual benchmark for spoken dialogue fact‑checking, covering English, Russian, and Kazakh. It includes almost 12,000 dialogues, 187,000 turns, and 390 hours of paired audio with ASR transcripts and word‑level timestamps, as well as nearly 5,000 human‑recorded Russian and Kazakh files. The dataset supports tasks such as claim check‑worthiness detection, evidence retrieval, and claim verification under various input conditions, and baseline experiments reveal challenges with ASR errors and cross‑lingual transfer, especially for Kazakh.

By Chaewan Chun, Meruyert Aristombayeva, Jiyoung Choi, Mahjabin Nahar, Delvin Ce Zhang, Dongwon Lee
arXiv Computation and Language
6d ago

The Anatomy of an ASR Hallucination

The paper investigates why automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems sometimes generate fluent text that does not correspond to the input audio, a phenomenon termed hallucination. By examining two independently trained Conformer‑Large models—one using CTC and the other RNN‑T—under conditions of environmental noise and speaker‑background shift, the authors identify the final encoder stage as a critical boundary. Bypassing this final block leads to divergence on almost all utterances, while bypassing earlier blocks has minimal effect; at this stage, representations become compact, the decoder can read the text, and grapheme information becomes explicit, yet the output is garbled or repetitive rather than fluent fabrication. The study thus pinpoints a mechanistic precondition for hallucination—failure to produce adequately grounded output—though it does not fully explain naturally occurring hallucinations, and it highlights a consistent terminal‑stage dependency across decoder families and distribution shifts.

By Hamees Sayed, Apoorv Singh, Kumar Aman, Akshat Mandloi