2025/10/08 by Amruta Parulekar, Parulekar, Amruta, Preethi Jyothi +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Natural Language Processing Techniques #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2510.07437
openalex publication_date 2025/10/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/18 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Standard ASR evaluation metrics like Word Error Rate (WER) tend to unfairly penalize morphological and syntactic nuances that do not significantly alter sentence semantics. We introduce an LLM-based scoring rubric LASER that leverages state-of-the-art LLMs' in-context learning abilities to learn from prompts with detailed examples. Hindi LASER scores using Gemini 2.5 Pro achieved a very high correlation score of 94% with human annotations. Hindi examples in the prompt were also effective in analyzing errors in other Indian languages such as Marathi, Kannada and Malayalam. We also demonstrate how a smaller LLM like Llama 3 can be finetuned on word-pair examples derived from reference and ASR predictions to predict what kind of penalty should be applied with close to 89% accuracy.