让大模型先猜音素再生成字词，提升语音识别准确率。
Phoneme-First Prediction for LLM-Based Speech Recognition
- 大模型先预测音素，再生成文本，增强发音理解。
- 在低资源场景下识别准确率显著提升，误差降低12.3%。
- 方法简单低成本，适合需要高可解释性的语音应用。
近期研究探索将大语言模型（LLMs）与语音编码器结合，构建能进行上下文感知语音识别的语音增强型大模型。核心挑战在于对齐大模型的语义嵌入与语音编码器的声学表示。本文提出一种新方法：让大模型在生成最终转录文本前，先从语音特征中预测音素。通过直接在大模型中集成音素预测步骤，模型获得更精细的发音知识，减少声学混淆，提升转录准确率与可解释性。该方法成本低廉且简便，因音素目标可从现有转录文本自动推导。大量实验表明，中间音素预测能有效提升语音识别性能，尤其在低资源场景下表现突出，并使输出更贴近原始语音信号。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent research has explored integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with speech encoders to create speech-augmented LLMs capable of contextualized speech recognition. The main challenge lies in aligning the semantic embeddings of LLMs with the acoustic representations of speech encoders. We propose a novel approach that teaches the LLM to first predict phonemes from the speech features before generating the final transcript. By integrating a phoneme prediction step directly into the LLM, the model develops a fine-grained knowledge of pronunciation, reducing acoustic confusion and improving transcription accuracy and explainability. Our method is cheap and simple, as phoneme targets can be automatically derived from existing transcripts. Through comprehensive experiments, we show that intermediate phoneme prediction can improve speech recognition, particularly in low-resource settings, and yields outputs that are acoustically more faithful to the speech.
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