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The Anatomy of an ASR Hallucination

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 3, 2026 · UTC

ASR systems sometimes produce fluent text that is unrelated to the speech they receive. We view these hallucinations as one possible consequence of a broader grounding failure, in which the transcript is no longer adequately guided by the audio. To understand where this failure becomes possible, we study two independently trained Conformer-Large recognizers - one CTC and one RNN-T - under environmental degradation and speaker-background shift. In both models, the final encoder stage emerges as a critical boundary: bypassing the final block causes divergence on nearly every utterance, whereas b

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