Kavya Manohar

What is lost in Normalization? Exploring Pitfalls in Multilingual ASR Model Evaluations

This paper explores the pitfalls in evaluating multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, with a particular focus on Indic language scripts. We investigate the text normalization routine employed by leading ASR models, including OpenAI Whisper, Meta’s MMS, Seamless, and Assembly AI’s Co…