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Context-Aware Dynamic Chunking for Streaming Tibetan Speech Recognition

Computation and Language 2025-11-13 v1

Abstract

In this work, we propose a streaming speech recognition framework for Amdo Tibetan, built upon a hybrid CTC/Atten-tion architecture with a context-aware dynamic chunking mechanism. The proposed strategy adaptively adjusts chunk widths based on encoding states, enabling flexible receptive fields, cross-chunk information exchange, and robust adaptation to varying speaking rates, thereby alleviating the context truncation problem of fixed-chunk methods. To further capture the linguistic characteristics of Tibetan, we construct a lexicon grounded in its orthographic principles, providing linguistically motivated modeling units. During decoding, an external language model is integrated to enhance semantic consistency and improve recognition of long sentences. Experimental results show that the proposed framework achieves a word error rate (WER) of 6.23% on the test set, yielding a 48.15% relative improvement over the fixed-chunk baseline, while significantly reducing recognition latency and maintaining performance close to global decoding.

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@article{arxiv.2511.09085,
  title  = {Context-Aware Dynamic Chunking for Streaming Tibetan Speech Recognition},
  author = {Chao Wang and Yuqing Cai and Renzeng Duojie and Jin Zhang and Yutong Liu and Nyima Tashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.09085},
  year   = {2025}
}
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