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Score4.0PainA method to compress conversational audio context for improved LLM-based speech recognition, reducing computational cost.
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ARXIV:2603.26246 · ASR · SUBMITTED 30 MAR · 21:58 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.26246ASRSUBMITTED 30 MAR · 21:58 UTCFRESHNESS STALEShashi Kumar · Esaú Villatoro-Tello · Sergio Burdisso · Kadri Hacioglu · Thibault Bañeras-Roux · Hasindri Watawana · +4 at arXiv
A method to compress conversational audio context for improved LLM-based speech recognition, reducing computational cost.
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Pain A method to compress conversational audio context for improved LLM-based speech recognition, reducing computational cost.
Evidence 14 refs | 3 sources | 50% coverage
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A method to compress conversational audio context for improved LLM-based speech recognition, reducing computational cost. In this work, we study whether multimodal context from prior turns improves LLM-based ASR and how to represent that…
Standard LLM-based speech recognition systems typically process utterances in isolation, limiting their ability to leverage conversational context. In this work, we study whether multimodal context from prior turns improves LLM-based ASR and how to…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 4.0/10 on the public viability pass. In this work, we study whether multimodal context from prior turns improves LLM-based ASR and how to represent that context efficiently.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.26246A method to compress conversational audio context for improved LLM-based speech recognition, reducing computational cost.
Abstract
Standard LLM-based speech recognition systems typically process utterances in isolation, limiting their ability to leverage conversational context. In this work, we study whether multimodal context from prior turns improves LLM-based ASR and how to represent that context efficiently. We find that, after supervised multi-turn training, conversational context mainly helps with the recognition of contextual entities. However, conditioning on raw context is expensive because the prior-turn audio token sequence grows rapidly with conversation length. To address this, we propose Abstract Compression, which replaces the audio portion of prior turns with a fixed number of learned latent tokens while retaining corresponding transcripts explicitly. On both in-domain and out-of-domain test sets, the compressed model recovers part of the gains of raw-context conditioning with a smaller prior-turn audio footprint. We also provide targeted analyses of the compression setup and its trade-offs.
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A method to compress conversational audio context for improved LLM-based speech recognition, reducing computational cost. In this work, we study whether multimodal context from prior turns improves LLM-based ASR and how to represent that context efficiently.
METHOD
Standard LLM-based speech recognition systems typically process utterances in isolation, limiting their ability to leverage conversational context. In this work, we study whether multimodal context from prior turns improves LLM-based ASR and how to represent that context efficie...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 4.0/10 on the public viability pass. In this work, we study whether multimodal context from prior turns improves LLM-based ASR and how to represent that context efficiently.
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ASR moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 4.0/10.
We find that, after supervised multi-turn training, conversational context mainly helps with the recognition of contextual entities.
The abstract explicitly states this finding and it is supported by the analysis of Bias-WER.
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we propose Abstract Compression, which replaces the audio portion of prior turns with a fixed number of learned latent tokens while retaining corresponding transcripts explicitly.
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On both in-domain and out-of-domain test sets, the compressed model recovers part of the gains of raw-context conditioning with a smaller prior-turn audio footprint.
The abstract directly states this outcome and it is supported by the comparison of WER and Bias-WER in the results section.
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However, conditioning on raw context is expensive because the prior-turn audio token sequence grows rapidly with conversation length.
The abstract clearly states this limitation and the analysis section elaborates on the cost implications.
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During this stage, the base model is frozen, and only the compression module, including the turn-specific queriesQi and the cross-attention parameters, is optimized.
The description of the training stage for Abstract Compression is detailed and specific.
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On the more entity-dense WoW set, the gains are larger: WER from 25.6% to 23.3%.
Specific numerical results are provided for the WoW dataset, indicating a clear performance improvement.
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We do not compress prior-turn text in this work. Unlike audio, compressed text did not admit a comparably effective alignment stage in our preliminary experiments, and retaining transcripts
The paper explains the rationale behind not compressing text, based on prior experimental findings.
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