Bridging ASR and LLMs for Dysarthric Speech Recognition: Benchmarking Self-Supervised and Generative Approaches

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08027v1
• Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:31:20 GMT
• Title: Bridging ASR and LLMs for Dysarthric Speech Recognition: Benchmarking Self-Supervised and Generative Approaches
• Abstract summary: Speech Recognition (ASR) due to phoneme distortions and high variability.<n>Self-supervised ASR models like Wav2Vec, HuBERT, and Whisper have shown promise, but their effectiveness in dysarthric speech remains unclear.<n>This study systematically benchmarks these models with different decoding strategies, including CTC, seq2seq, and LLM-enhanced decoding.
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• Abstract: Speech Recognition (ASR) due to phoneme distortions and high variability. While self-supervised ASR models like Wav2Vec, HuBERT, and Whisper have shown promise, their effectiveness in dysarthric speech remains unclear. This study systematically benchmarks these models with different decoding strategies, including CTC, seq2seq, and LLM-enhanced decoding (BART,GPT-2, Vicuna). Our contributions include (1) benchmarking ASR architectures for dysarthric speech, (2) introducing LLM-based decoding to improve intelligibility, (3) analyzing generalization across datasets, and (4) providing insights into recognition errors across severity levels. Findings highlight that LLM-enhanced decoding improves dysarthric ASR by leveraging linguistic constraints for phoneme restoration and grammatical correction.

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