Understanding Personalization Gains in Whisper ASR

arXiv:2610.17019 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-12 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-12

Updated: 2026-10-17

Comments: 14 pages. Presented at SPECOM 2026

Journal ref: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 16934, pp. 3-16, Springer (2027)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-37867-5_1

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Personalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
• Two-Stage Adaptation for Non-Normative Speech Recognition: Revisiting Speaker-Independent Initialization for Personalization
• PI-Whisper: Designing an Adaptive and Incremental Automatic Speech Recognition System for Edge Devices
• Variational Low-Rank Adaptation for Personalized Impaired Speech Recognition
• Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
• Speaker Adaptation for Quantised End-to-End ASR Models

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