[Bugfix][Frontend] Apply the model's transcription post-processing on the realtime path - #55786
[Bugfix][Frontend] Apply the model's transcription post-processing on the realtime path#55786twu3202 wants to merge 1 commit into
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… the realtime path The /v1/realtime WebSocket path forwarded raw model text, so Qwen3-ASR clients received the 'language Chinese<asr_text>' header of every 5 s segment. Route realtime deltas through the model's streaming post-processor (fresh instance per segment, boundary = finish_reason on the completion output) and expose the two post-processing hooks on SupportsRealtime with identity defaults. Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Tianyao Wu <rayroy31@gmail.com>
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Purpose
The REST transcription endpoints run model output through
post_process_output()/get_streaming_post_processor_cls(), so models with a structured output format return clean text. The/v1/realtimeWebSocket path forwards
output.outputs[0].textverbatim. For Qwen3-ASR every 5 s segment is a separate generationthat starts with a
language Chinese<asr_text>header, so realtime clients receiveinstead of the transcript (the "raw format leaks" part of #35767).
Changes:
SupportsRealtimegainspost_process_output()andget_streaming_post_processor_cls()with identity defaults,mirroring
SupportsTranscription; Qwen3-ASR and Voxtral keep their existing transcription overrides through the MRO(Voxtral has none, so its output is unchanged).
RealtimeConnection._run_generationfeeds each delta through a streaming post-processor and starts a fresh one atevery segment boundary (
finish_reasonon the completion output). Empty deltas produced while the header is bufferedare not sent. Token ids fed back to the engine and the usage counters still use the raw tokens.
Related PRs: #49658 also applies the streaming post-processor in
connection.py, but with a single instance for thewhole connection;
Qwen3ASRStreamingPostProcessordiffs against its accumulated text, so from the second segment on thelanguage Chineseprefix is emitted again. #51037 strips the header with a privatersplit("<asr_text>")helper aspart of a larger KV-reuse change. This PR is the minimal fix through the existing model hooks and is independent of both.
Test Plan
tests/entrypoints/speech_to_text/realtime/test_realtime_post_process.py: pass-through model(deltas, token feedback and usage unchanged) and a model using
Qwen3ASRStreamingPostProcessoracross two segments(header stripped from every delta and from
done.text, no empty deltas, unstructured output kept).vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B --hf-overrides '{"architectures":["Qwen3ASRRealtimeGeneration"]}',FLEURS
cmn_hans_cnclips streamed at 100 ms cadence over/v1/realtime, before/after this patch.Test Result
Unit test: 3 passed (main@144e79c + this patch).
E2E on an RTX 5090, main@144e79c ± this patch:
language Chinese<asr_text>, 65 deltasFirst-delta and
donetiming relative to audio end are unchanged;usage.completion_tokensis unchanged (65 / 100).Segment repetition and mis-transcriptions of the realtime path ([Enhancement]: Qwen3-ASR realtime endpoint produces degraded output — stateless segments, no cross-segment context, raw format leaks #35767 / [Feature][Model] Support stable-window-aware KV reuse for Qwen3-ASR realtime #51037) are not touched by this change.
Developed with AI assistance (Claude); I reviewed every changed line and ran the tests above.
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