Interactive ASR: Towards Human-Like Interaction and Semantic Coherence Evaluation for Agentic Speech Recognition

arXiv:2604.09121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in automatic speech recognition (ASR), driven by advances in model architectures and large-scale training data. However, two important aspects remain underexplored. First, Word Error Rate (WER), the dominant evaluation metric for decades, treats all words equally and often fails to reflect the semantic correctness of an utterance at the sentence level. Second, interactive correction-an essential com