cs.CLJun 4, 2026

FiLM-Based Speaker Conditioning of a SpeechLLM for Pathological Speech Recognition

Authors: Fernando LópezSantosh KesirajuJordi Luque

Organizations: Scientific Research, Telefónica Innovación Digital, Spain · AUDIAS, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Abstract

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has advanced remarkably for standard speech; however, pathological speech from neurological conditions remains a significant challenge. We investigate speaker conditioning via Feature-wise Linear Modulation (FiLM), injecting x-vector-derived information into each transformer layer of a frozen ASR encoder to adapt internal representations to individual pathological speakers without modifying base model weights. We benchmark this for the ASR task against standard and parameter-efficient fine-tuning baselines, complemented by post-processing, on Spanish and English pathological speech. Additionally, we evaluate if the adapted model preserves the ability to answer speech-related questions. Results show that speaker-conditioned ASR is competitive with established adaptation strategies while retaining performance on non-conditioned speech.

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