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This study demonstrates that injecting speaker embeddings via Feature-wise Linear Modulation (FiLM) into a frozen ASR encoder effectively adapts models to pathological speech without altering base weights. The approach achieves performance competitive with established fine-tuning strategies while maintaining robustness on standard speech inputs. For technical audiences, this offers a parameter-efficient pathway to improve accessibility in speech recognition systems for neurological conditions.
FiLM-Based Speaker Conditioning of a SpeechLLM for Pathological Speech Recognition
arXiv:2606.06211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has advanced remarkably for standard speech; however, pathological speech from neurological conditions remains a significant challenge. We investigate speaker conditioning via Feature-wise Linear Modulation (FiLM), injecting x-vector-derived information into each transformer layer of a frozen ASR encoder to adapt internal representations to individual pathological speakers without modifying base model weights. We benchmark this for the ASR task against standard and parameter-efficient fine-tuning baselines, complemented by post-processing, on Spanish and English pathological speech. Additionally, we evaluate if the adapted model preserves the ability to answer speech-related questions. Results show that speaker-conditioned ASR is competitive with established adaptation strategies while retaining performance on non-conditioned speech.
Abstract:Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has advanced remarkably for standard speech; however, pathological speech from neurological conditions remains a significant challenge. We investigate speaker conditioning via Feature-wise Linear Modulation (FiLM), injecting x-vector-derived information into each transformer layer of a frozen ASR encoder to adapt internal representations to individual pathological speakers without modifying base model weights. We benchmark this for the ASR task against standard and parameter-efficient fine-tuning baselines, complemented by post-processing, on Spanish and English pathological speech. Additionally, we evaluate if the adapted model preserves the ability to answer speech-related questions. Results show that speaker-conditioned ASR is competitive with established adaptation strategies while retaining performance on non-conditioned speech.
Computation and Language (cs.CL); Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
arXiv:2606.06211 [cs.CL]
(or arXiv:2606.06211v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
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