Lightweight Prompt Biasing for Contextualized End-to-End ASR Systems

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Main Authors: Ren, Bo, Shi, Yu, Li, Jinyu
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author Ren, Bo
Shi, Yu
Li, Jinyu
author_facet Ren, Bo
Shi, Yu
Li, Jinyu
contents End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has advanced significantly yet still struggles with rare and domain-specific entities. This paper introduces a simple yet efficient prompt-based biasing technique for contextualized ASR, enhancing recognition accuracy by leverage a unified multitask learning framework. The approach comprises two key components: a prompt biasing model which is trained to determine when to focus on entities in prompt, and a entity filtering mechanism which efficiently filters out irrelevant entities. Our method significantly enhances ASR accuracy on entities, achieving a relative 30.7% and 18.0% reduction in Entity Word Error Rate compared to the baseline model with shallow fusion on in-house domain dataset with small and large entity lists, respectively. The primary advantage of this method lies in its efficiency and simplicity without any structure change, making it lightweight and highly efficient.
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spellingShingle Lightweight Prompt Biasing for Contextualized End-to-End ASR Systems
Ren, Bo
Shi, Yu
Li, Jinyu
Audio and Speech Processing
Computation and Language
End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has advanced significantly yet still struggles with rare and domain-specific entities. This paper introduces a simple yet efficient prompt-based biasing technique for contextualized ASR, enhancing recognition accuracy by leverage a unified multitask learning framework. The approach comprises two key components: a prompt biasing model which is trained to determine when to focus on entities in prompt, and a entity filtering mechanism which efficiently filters out irrelevant entities. Our method significantly enhances ASR accuracy on entities, achieving a relative 30.7% and 18.0% reduction in Entity Word Error Rate compared to the baseline model with shallow fusion on in-house domain dataset with small and large entity lists, respectively. The primary advantage of this method lies in its efficiency and simplicity without any structure change, making it lightweight and highly efficient.
title Lightweight Prompt Biasing for Contextualized End-to-End ASR Systems
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06252