A Reranker for Orchestrating Heterogeneous Speech and Text Retrievers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26194v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:32:05 GMT
• Title: A Reranker for Orchestrating Heterogeneous Speech and Text Retrievers
• Abstract summary: We propose STeReO (Speech and Text Reranking Orchestrator), a reranker based on speech and text retrievers that aggregates disparate modality databases.<n>Our results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm excels at selecting the most relevant evidence, thereby significantly improving downstream question-answering performance.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have attracted significant interest for their ability to mitigate hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs). Although knowledge databases for RAG are increasingly diversifying to include various modalities such as speech and text, research on handling such multi-modal database scenarios remains limited. In this paper, we propose STeReO (Speech and Text Reranking Orchestrator), a reranker based on speech and text retrievers that aggregates disparate modality databases. To address the lack of specialized training data, we first curate a dataset comprising queries, mixed-modality evidence, and their corresponding relevance ranks. We then train the reranker and evaluate its effectiveness in both single-modality and mixed-modality scenarios. Our results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm excels at selecting the most relevant evidence, thereby significantly improving downstream question-answering performance.

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