Listen Again and Choose the Right Answer: A New Paradigm for Automatic Speech Recognition with Large Language Models (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have promoted generative error correction (GER) for automatic speech recognition (ASR). |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal LLM to receive source speech as extra input and reformat it as a cloze test with logits calibration to remove input information redundancy and simplify GER with clear instructions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on 9 popular ASR datasets and is faster than vanilla GER. |
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