Improving Domain-Specific ASR with LLM-Generated Contextual Descriptions

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Auteurs principaux: Suh, Jiwon, Na, Injae, Jung, Woohwan
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author Suh, Jiwon
Na, Injae
Jung, Woohwan
author_facet Suh, Jiwon
Na, Injae
Jung, Woohwan
contents End-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E ASR) systems have significantly improved speech recognition through training on extensive datasets. Despite these advancements, they still struggle to accurately recognize domain specific words, such as proper nouns and technical terminologies. To address this problem, we propose a method to utilize the state-of-the-art Whisper without modifying its architecture, preserving its generalization performance while enabling it to leverage descriptions effectively. Moreover, we propose two additional training techniques to improve the domain specific ASR: decoder fine-tuning, and context perturbation. We also propose a method to use a Large Language Model (LLM) to generate descriptions with simple metadata, when descriptions are unavailable. Our experiments demonstrate that proposed methods notably enhance domain-specific ASR accuracy on real-life datasets, with LLM-generated descriptions outperforming human-crafted ones in effectiveness.
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spellingShingle Improving Domain-Specific ASR with LLM-Generated Contextual Descriptions
Suh, Jiwon
Na, Injae
Jung, Woohwan
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
End-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E ASR) systems have significantly improved speech recognition through training on extensive datasets. Despite these advancements, they still struggle to accurately recognize domain specific words, such as proper nouns and technical terminologies. To address this problem, we propose a method to utilize the state-of-the-art Whisper without modifying its architecture, preserving its generalization performance while enabling it to leverage descriptions effectively. Moreover, we propose two additional training techniques to improve the domain specific ASR: decoder fine-tuning, and context perturbation. We also propose a method to use a Large Language Model (LLM) to generate descriptions with simple metadata, when descriptions are unavailable. Our experiments demonstrate that proposed methods notably enhance domain-specific ASR accuracy on real-life datasets, with LLM-generated descriptions outperforming human-crafted ones in effectiveness.
title Improving Domain-Specific ASR with LLM-Generated Contextual Descriptions
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17874