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Add Qwen3 ASR Models and Forced Aligner models

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  • New Features
    • Added Qwen3 speech recognition for supported models, including offline transcription and streaming updates.
    • Added forced alignment to match transcripts with audio timestamps at word or character level.
    • Added command-line tools for transcription and alignment, plus model export and validation workflows.
    • Added support for Qwen3 tokenizer formats and Unicode-aware text processing.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup, usage, and model support guidance for Qwen3 ASR and forced alignment.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Cached TensorRT-RTX contexts are reused only when compatible and up to date; outdated contexts are rebuilt.
    • Streaming transcription preserves valid text when an update ends partway through a multibyte character.

This change adds Qwen3 ASR and forced-alignment export, validation, C++ APIs, and CLI tools. It adds byte-level BPE and Unicode tokenizer support, runtime utilities, build integration, and model and dependency documentation.

Changes: Qwen3 ASR and Alignment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Unicode and byte-level tokenizer support
cmake/pcre2.cmake, cmake/utf8proc.cmake, common/io/*, tests/tokenizer/test_tokenizer.cpp
Adds PCRE2 and utf8proc integration, UTF-8 validation, Unicode regex utilities, and byte-level BPE encoding and decoding with optional NFC normalization. Adds byte-level tokenizer test coverage.
ONNX export and validation
asr/qwen3/model_export/*, asr/qwen3/requirements.txt
Adds ONNX exporters for ASR and alignment models, validation against reference outputs, and pinned Python requirements.
ASR runtime and streaming API
asr/qwen3/runtime.h, asr/qwen3/qwen3.*, asr/qwen3/main.cpp, asr/qwen3/text_output.h, asr/qwen3/tests/*, asr/qwen3/CMakeLists.txt, CMakeLists.txt, common/ort_session.cpp
Adds runtime utilities, offline transcription and streaming, CLI output, UTF-8 output handling and tests, and build targets. TensorRT RTX provider registration checks each environment, and cached execution-provider contexts are reused only when current and compatible.
Forced-alignment API and CLI
asr/qwen3/forced_aligner.*, asr/qwen3/aligner_main.cpp
Adds text unit processing, timestamp inference, segment alignment, and a command-line interface.
Model, build, and licensing documentation
README.md, asr/qwen3/README.md, THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, .gitignore
Lists supported Qwen3 models, documents export and inference usage, adds model and dependency license information, and ignores local Qwen3 helper directories.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/din-deploy#11: Adds a diarization CLI that links to the Qwen3 library and uses its transcription and forced-alignment APIs.
Merge Risk: High · up to f6ae8

The Qwen3 target cannot build as declared, and some literal tokenizer tokens can be encoded incorrectly. Fix both before merging.

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Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the primary Qwen3 ASR change. It does not mention the forced aligner, but it remains concise and related to the main changes.
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In `@asr/qwen3/main.cpp`:
- Around line 49-53: In asr/qwen3/main.cpp, preserve the original stdout stream
as results, redirect std::cout to std::cerr in all modes before constructing
Qwen3Pipeline, and write the offline JSON through results. In
asr/qwen3/aligner_main.cpp, preserve stdout as results and redirect std::cout to
std::cerr before constructing Qwen3ForcedAligner, then write the JSON through
results.

In `@asr/qwen3/qwen3.cpp`:
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  • asr/qwen3/aligner_main.cpp
  • asr/qwen3/forced_aligner.cpp
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  • asr/qwen3/main.cpp
  • asr/qwen3/model_export/export_qwen3_asr.py
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  • asr/qwen3/qwen3.h
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  • asr/qwen3/runtime.h
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  • common/io/CMakeLists.txt
  • common/io/tokenizer.cpp
  • common/io/tokenizer.h
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Comment thread asr/qwen3/main.cpp Resolved
Comment thread asr/qwen3/qwen3.cpp Resolved
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Review comments at @CMakeLists.txt:
- Line 105: Update the Qwen3 target declaration using add_din_shared_library to
remove the STATIC argument, since the helper already creates a shared library;
keep the root add_subdirectory(asr/qwen3) entry unchanged.

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- Around line 1003-1008: Update the ByteBpeJson Decode flow to recognize
non-special added tokens after applying skip_special_tokens and append their
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Comment thread CMakeLists.txt
add_subdirectory(asr/rnnt)
add_subdirectory(vision/sam2)
add_subdirectory(asr/whisper)
add_subdirectory(asr/qwen3)

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Critical · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Fix the Qwen3 library declaration before enabling this subdirectory.

asr/qwen3/CMakeLists.txt passes STATIC to add_din_shared_library, but the root helper already expands to add_library(... SHARED ${ARGN}). The resulting command treats STATIC as a source file instead of a library type, so enabling this directory makes the Qwen3 target fail during configuration or build. Remove STATIC from the call if the helper’s shared-library behavior is intended, or update the helper to accept an explicit library type. CMake accepts the type only immediately after the target name. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the Qwen3 target declaration using add_din_shared_library to remove the
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Minor · Match normalized: false added tokens before NFC normalization. · tokenizer.cpp:902-930

common/io/tokenizer.cpp:902-930
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Match normalized: false added tokens before NFC normalization.

AddedToken.normalized defines whether matching uses normalized input. The loader drops this flag, and Encode NFC-normalizes the full input before matching every added token. A decomposed token can therefore miss its assigned ID, and decoding returns composed text instead of the original decomposed text.

Preserve the flag. Match normalized: false tokens against raw input, and normalize only non-added segments.

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Preserve each AddedToken’s normalized flag when loading tokenizer data. Update
Tokenizer::Encode to match normalized: false tokens against the raw input and
NFC-normalize only the intervening non-added segments, so matched tokens retain
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- Around line 902-930: Preserve each AddedToken’s normalized flag when loading
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