Fix Qwen3-ASR hallucinating text on silent audio when hotwords/language are set - #3907
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…ge set TrimAudioFeatures() returns the original, untrimmed audio_features tensor when every frame's energy stays below the silence threshold, but gave the caller no way to tell that case apart from "nothing needed trimming". In GenerateText(), the untouched tensor still has shape[1] > 0 for any nonzero-duration clip, so audio_token_len never drops to 0 and the audio_token_len <= 0 early return never fires for genuinely silent audio. Decoding proceeds and, once hotwords or language are set, those prompt tokens can bias the LLM decoder away from emitting EOS immediately, producing hallucinated text (e.g. "system") on silence. Add an out-param to TrimAudioFeatures so it reports the all-silent case explicitly, and use it in GenerateText to force audio_token_len to 0 and return an empty result before any hotwords/language prompt tokens are built. TrimAudioFeatures is moved out of the file-local anonymous namespace and declared in the header so it can be unit tested directly. Fixes k2-fsa#3509
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In `@sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-recognizer-qwen3-asr-impl.cc`:
- Around line 178-180: Initialize the all_silent output to false at the start of
TrimAudioFeatures, preserving the existing assignment to true for all-silent
input; add a regression test using an initially true flag with a non-silent
tensor and verify it is reset to false.
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Reset all_silent for non-silent and invalid inputs.
TrimAudioFeatures sets *all_silent only for all-silent input. It leaves the value unchanged on other return paths. A caller that reuses true or passes an uninitialized flag can receive a false silent classification. Initialize the flag to false at function entry, then set it to true in this branch. Add a regression test with an initially true flag and a non-silent tensor.
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Ort::Value TrimAudioFeatures(Ort::Value audio_features, OrtAllocator *allocator,
bool *all_silent) {
+ if (all_silent != nullptr) {
+ *all_silent = false;
+ }
+
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In `@sherpa-onnx/csrc/offline-recognizer-qwen3-asr-impl.cc` around lines 178 -
180, Initialize the all_silent output to false at the start of
TrimAudioFeatures, preserving the existing assignment to true for all-silent
input; add a regression test using an initially true flag with a non-silent
tensor and verify it is reset to false.
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Fixes #3509
Root cause
TrimAudioFeatures()walksaudio_features(shape[1, A, H]) back-to-frontlooking for the last frame whose energy exceeds
eps. When every frame isbelow
eps(A_valid <= 0, i.e. the whole clip is silence), it returns theoriginal, untrimmed tensor -- the same thing it does when nothing needed
trimming. The caller in
GenerateText()has no way to tell those two casesapart: it only shrinks
audio_token_lenwhen the trimmed tensor is shorterthan the original, so for a nonzero-duration all-silent clip
audio_token_lenstays at its original nonzero value and the existing
audio_token_len <= 0early return never fires.
As a result, decoding proceeds on all-silent audio and the hotwords/language
prompt tokens get built and fed to the LLM decoder. As reported in the issue,
an empty prompt (no hotwords, no language) still happens to produce an empty
result because the decoder naturally emits EOS, but adding
--hotwordsor--languagebiases it away from that and it hallucinates text (e.g."system").Fix
TrimAudioFeatures()now takes an optionalbool *all_silentout-parameterand sets it to
truewhen every frame is below the silence threshold.GenerateText()uses that flag to forceaudio_token_lento0and returnan empty result before any hotwords/language prompt tokens are built, so
silence is handled the same way regardless of what options are set.
TrimAudioFeatures()is moved out of the file-local anonymous namespace anddeclared in
offline-recognizer-qwen3-asr-impl.hso it can be exerciseddirectly by a unit test.
Testing
Added
offline-recognizer-qwen3-asr-impl-test.ccwith three gtest casesagainst
TrimAudioFeatures()directly:all_silent = trueframes trims correctly and leaves
all_silent = falseall_silent = falseRegistered the new test file in
sherpa-onnx/csrc/CMakeLists.txt'ssherpa_onnx_test_srcslist.Built and ran the new test against a real CMake configuration
(
-DSHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_TESTS=ON, all other optional components off, ONNXRuntime v1.27.1 fetched by the build):
Also confirmed the test fails to build against the pre-fix code (checked out
offline-recognizer-qwen3-asr-impl.{cc,h}from the parent commit): thebuild fails with
use of undeclared identifier 'TrimAudioFeatures'becausethe old signature isn't visible outside the anonymous namespace, then passes
again once the fix is restored.
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Bug Fixes
Tests