Large Language Models based ASR Error Correction for Child Conversations
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| author | Xu, Anfeng Feng, Tiantian Kim, So Hyun Bishop, Somer Lord, Catherine Narayanan, Shrikanth |
| author_facet | Xu, Anfeng Feng, Tiantian Kim, So Hyun Bishop, Somer Lord, Catherine Narayanan, Shrikanth |
| contents | Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has recently shown remarkable progress, but accurately transcribing children's speech remains a significant challenge. Recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in improving ASR transcriptions. However, their applications in child speech including conversational scenarios are underexplored. In this study, we explore the use of LLMs in correcting ASR errors for conversational child speech. We demonstrate the promises and challenges of LLMs through experiments on two children's conversational speech datasets with both zero-shot and fine-tuned ASR outputs. We find that while LLMs are helpful in correcting zero-shot ASR outputs and fine-tuned CTC-based ASR outputs, it remains challenging for LLMs to improve ASR performance when incorporating contextual information or when using fine-tuned autoregressive ASR (e.g., Whisper) outputs. |
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| spellingShingle | Large Language Models based ASR Error Correction for Child Conversations Xu, Anfeng Feng, Tiantian Kim, So Hyun Bishop, Somer Lord, Catherine Narayanan, Shrikanth Computation and Language Audio and Speech Processing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has recently shown remarkable progress, but accurately transcribing children's speech remains a significant challenge. Recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in improving ASR transcriptions. However, their applications in child speech including conversational scenarios are underexplored. In this study, we explore the use of LLMs in correcting ASR errors for conversational child speech. We demonstrate the promises and challenges of LLMs through experiments on two children's conversational speech datasets with both zero-shot and fine-tuned ASR outputs. We find that while LLMs are helpful in correcting zero-shot ASR outputs and fine-tuned CTC-based ASR outputs, it remains challenging for LLMs to improve ASR performance when incorporating contextual information or when using fine-tuned autoregressive ASR (e.g., Whisper) outputs. |
| title | Large Language Models based ASR Error Correction for Child Conversations |
| topic | Computation and Language Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16212 |