Audio LLMs cannot assess their own transcription reliability.

A lightweight predictor using audio encoder representations outperforms existing methods by over 10 F1 points.

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Apple · University of California San Diego

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The authors study whether Audio LLMs can detect when their own transcription of a voice query is unreliable.

The authors first prompted Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct to self-assess transcription reliability via zero-shot and two-shot in-context learning, finding it consistently overconfident.

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From Apple and University of California San Diego

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Audio-encoder representations predict whether an Audio LLM will transcribe degraded speech reliably far better than self-assessment or tested quality and uncertainty baselines.

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