2 papers
cs.SD2026
Alignment Drift in Single-Model Speculative Decoding for ASR: Mechanism, Correction, and Cost
Xinyu Wang, Huapeng Zhou, Ziyu Zhao +5
Speculative decoding speeds up generation by letting a cheap draft propose several tokens that a target model checks in one pass. In the single-model form, the draft is a lightweig…
cs.AI2026
Back to Basics: Revisiting ASR in the Age of Voice Agents
Geeyang Tay, Wentao Ma, Jaewon Lee +8
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved near-human accuracy on curated benchmarks, yet still fail in real-world voice agents under conditions that current evaluati…