Pretrained ASR Pseudo-labeling for Noisy Police Audio

arXiv cs.AISeptember 28, 2026en

arXiv:2609.30469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained ASR systems perform poorly on noisy Broadcast Police Communication (BPC), hindering efforts to understand police decision-making. Pseudo-labeling offers an unsupervised path to improve ASR without expensive human labels, but the efficacy of this approach on very noisy domains is not known. In this work, we systematically assess the opportunities and limits of pseudo-labeling to adapt foundation ASR models (Whisper and Qwen3-ASR) to noisy BPC domain corpora from Baltimore and Chicago. We demonstrate that existing internal confidence metrics (log-probabilities and STAR scores) fail to distinguish between high and low quality BPC pseudo

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