Child ASR adaptation with adult retention across Arabic and English; study compares fine-tuning, LoRA, and weight-space merging for encoder–decoder, encoder–CTC, and AudioLLM-based ASR systems
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2610.08827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems often underperform for children and non-native speakers, while adapting adult ASR models to child speech can cause...
Original headline: "Child ASR Adaptation with Adult Retention: An Empirical Study"
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