Tokenizer Transplantation: Mitigating Autoregressive Collapse in Edge-Efficient Bengali ASR

Lightweight speech recognition models are critical for edge deployment, yet highly optimized architectures like Moonshine often fail on morphologically rich, non-Latin languages such as Bengali.

Lightweight speech recognition models are critical for edge deployment, yet highly optimized architectures like Moonshine often fail on morphologically rich, non-Latin languages such as Bengali. This study identifies the root cause of this failure as the model's English-centric…