Serialized Output Prompting for Large Language Model-based Multi-Talker Speech Recognition
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| author | Shi, Hao Fujita, Yusuke Mizumoto, Tomoya Liu, Lianbo Kojima, Atsushi Sudo, Yui |
| author_facet | Shi, Hao Fujita, Yusuke Mizumoto, Tomoya Liu, Lianbo Kojima, Atsushi Sudo, Yui |
| contents | Prompts are crucial for task definition and for improving the performance of large language models (LLM)-based systems. However, existing LLM-based multi-talker (MT) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems either omit prompts or rely on simple task-definition prompts, with no prior work exploring the design of prompts to enhance performance. In this paper, we propose extracting serialized output prompts (SOP) and explicitly guiding the LLM using structured prompts to improve system performance (SOP-MT-ASR). A Separator and serialized Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) layers are inserted after the speech encoder to separate and extract MT content from the mixed speech encoding in a first-speaking-first-out manner. Subsequently, the SOP, which serves as a prompt for LLMs, is obtained by decoding the serialized CTC outputs using greedy search. To train the model effectively, we design a three-stage training strategy, consisting of serialized output training (SOT) fine-tuning, serialized speech information extraction, and SOP-based adaptation. Experimental results on the LibriMix dataset show that, although the LLM-based SOT model performs well in the two-talker scenario, it fails to fully leverage LLMs under more complex conditions, such as the three-talker scenario. The proposed SOP approach significantly improved performance under both two- and three-talker conditions. |
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| spellingShingle | Serialized Output Prompting for Large Language Model-based Multi-Talker Speech Recognition Shi, Hao Fujita, Yusuke Mizumoto, Tomoya Liu, Lianbo Kojima, Atsushi Sudo, Yui Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Sound Audio and Speech Processing Prompts are crucial for task definition and for improving the performance of large language models (LLM)-based systems. However, existing LLM-based multi-talker (MT) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems either omit prompts or rely on simple task-definition prompts, with no prior work exploring the design of prompts to enhance performance. In this paper, we propose extracting serialized output prompts (SOP) and explicitly guiding the LLM using structured prompts to improve system performance (SOP-MT-ASR). A Separator and serialized Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) layers are inserted after the speech encoder to separate and extract MT content from the mixed speech encoding in a first-speaking-first-out manner. Subsequently, the SOP, which serves as a prompt for LLMs, is obtained by decoding the serialized CTC outputs using greedy search. To train the model effectively, we design a three-stage training strategy, consisting of serialized output training (SOT) fine-tuning, serialized speech information extraction, and SOP-based adaptation. Experimental results on the LibriMix dataset show that, although the LLM-based SOT model performs well in the two-talker scenario, it fails to fully leverage LLMs under more complex conditions, such as the three-talker scenario. The proposed SOP approach significantly improved performance under both two- and three-talker conditions. |
| title | Serialized Output Prompting for Large Language Model-based Multi-Talker Speech Recognition |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Sound Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04488 |