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Context Biasing for Pronunciation-Orthography Mismatch in Automatic Speech Recognition

Christian Huber, Alexander Waibel · Jun 23, 2025 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

Neural sequence-to-sequence systems deliver state-of-the-art performance for automatic speech recognition. When using appropriate modeling units, e.g., byte-pair encoding, these systems are in principle open vocabulary systems. In practice, however, they often fail to recognize words not seen during training, e.g., named entities, acronyms, or domain-specific special words. To address this problem, many context biasing methods have been proposed; however, these methods may still struggle when they are unable to relate audio and corresponding text, e.g., in case of a pronunciation-orthography mismatch. We propose a method where corrections of substitution errors can be used to improve the recognition accuracy of such challenging words. Users can add corrections on the fly during inference. We show that with this method we get a relative improvement in biased word error rate between 22% and 34% compared to a text-based replacement method, while maintaining the overall performance.

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Evidence snippet: Neural sequence-to-sequence systems deliver state-of-the-art performance for automatic speech recognition.

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Evidence snippet: Neural sequence-to-sequence systems deliver state-of-the-art performance for automatic speech recognition.

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Evidence snippet: Neural sequence-to-sequence systems deliver state-of-the-art performance for automatic speech recognition.

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Evidence snippet: Neural sequence-to-sequence systems deliver state-of-the-art performance for automatic speech recognition.

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Evidence snippet: We propose a method where corrections of substitution errors can be used to improve the recognition accuracy of such challenging words.

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Evidence snippet: Neural sequence-to-sequence systems deliver state-of-the-art performance for automatic speech recognition.

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We propose a method where corrections of substitution errors can be used to improve the recognition accuracy of such challenging words. HFEPX signals include Automatic Metrics with confidence 0.35. Updated from current HFEPX corpus.

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  • We propose a method where corrections of substitution errors can be used to improve the recognition accuracy of such challenging words.
  • We show that with this method we get a relative improvement in biased word error rate between 22% and 34% compared to a text-based replacement method, while maintaining the overall…
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.

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  • We propose a method where corrections of substitution errors can be used to improve the recognition accuracy of such challenging words.
  • We show that with this method we get a relative improvement in biased word error rate between 22% and 34% compared to a text-based replacement method, while maintaining the overall performance.

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