CoSE-E: A Benchmark for Code-switched Speech Evaluation in Enterprise Settings

Shama Gupta, Hoang H Nguyen, Chelsea Huang, Lindsay Devon Brin, Fanny Riols


Abstract
Code-switching (CS), a seamless alternation between languages within a single utterance, remains a critical challenge in automatic speech recognition (ASR). While prior works focus on conversational CS-ASR, enterprise settings demand evaluation of operational impact beyond edit-distance errors: how code-switching transcription errors propagate to downstream voice agent task failures. In this work, we propose (1) a CS-ASR synthetic benchmark and multidimensional evaluation framework tailored to enterprise domains, (2) systematic evaluation of frontier ASR systems across 5 language pairs, (3) diagnostic analysis of the additional transcription errors that code-switching introduces across language pairs and models. We release CoSE-E to support enterprise-focused CS-ASR evaluation for multilingual voice agents in enterprise deployment.
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2026.salma-1.11
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The Proceedings of Speech and Audio Language Models Workshop (2nd Edition)
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October
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2026
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Budapest, Hungary
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Santosh T.Y.S.S., Sreyan Ghosh, Ramani Duraiswami, Shinji Watanabe, Siddhant Arora, Sonal Kumar, Yossi Adi, Dinesh Manocha, Leibny Paola Garcia Perera
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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156–179
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Shama Gupta, Hoang H Nguyen, Chelsea Huang, Lindsay Devon Brin, and Fanny Riols. 2026. CoSE-E: A Benchmark for Code-switched Speech Evaluation in Enterprise Settings. In The Proceedings of Speech and Audio Language Models Workshop (2nd Edition), pages 156–179, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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