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[Submitted on 18 Oct 2026] Title:How Far Can the Gemma 4 Speech Encoder Go Without Changing Its Weights? Saudi and Gulf Arabic Speech Recognition with a Frozen and an Adapter-Augmented Encoder View a PDF of the paper titled How Far Can the Gemma 4 Speech Encoder Go Without Changing Its Weights? Saudi and Gulf Arabic Speech Recognition with a Frozen and an Adapter-Augmented Encoder, by Amr Abdelkhalik View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:We study the 305M-parameter audio encoder shared by Gemma 4 and EmbeddingGemma 2 (identical except for its final projection) for Saudi and Gulf Arabic speech recognition, without changing any of its weights. A frozen system trains only a 22.6M-parameter CTC reader over a mix of encoder layers; an adapted system adds 3.1M low-rank adapter parameters, a 41.5M-parameter hybrid CTC/attention reader and joint decoding with a sub-word language model. Against Cohere Transcribe Arabic (2.07B parameters), re-run on identical audio, the frozen system trails in word error rate (WER) but is statistically indistinguishable in character error rate (CER) on five of six human-labelled conditions, while running 3.4 times faster on CPU with greedy decoding. The adapted system is statistically indistinguishable in WER on a public Saudi customer-service call (19.20% against 19.27%) and on clean Emirati speech, is significantly better on telephone-coded Emirati speech, has a significantly lower CER on all six conditions of these sets, and beats a 0.6B recogniser fine-tuned on SADA in WER on all six; it still trails Cohere in WER on long-form Saudi speech. On a blind, human-corrected public call-centre sample it ranks 4 of 15 systems, behind three commercial APIs (significantly only one) and ahead of the other self-hostable systems by point estimate. An optimised joint decoder runs it at 139 times real time on one GPU. We also show that references made by correcting machine drafts favour the drafting system. Code and public-set results are released. Comments: 24 pages, 15 tables, 5 figures. Code and public-set results: this https URL Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) Cite as: arXiv:2610.28673 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2610.28673v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.28673 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Amr Abdelkhalik [view email] [v1] Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:06:44 UTC (143 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled How Far Can the Gemma 4 Speech Encoder Go Without Changing Its Weights? Saudi and Gulf Arabic Speech Recognition with a Frozen and an Adapter-Augmented Encoder, by Amr Abdelkhalik View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.CL new | recent | 2026-10 Change to browse by: cs cs.SD eess eess.AS References & Citations SciX Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)