Qwen 3 ASR

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Add Qwen3 ASR Models and Forced Aligner models

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• asr/qwen3/main.cpp
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• New Features
  • Added Qwen3 speech recognition for supported ASR models, with 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.
  • 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
  • Improved reuse of compatible cached TensorRT-RTX contexts when they are up to date.
  • Streaming transcription now preserves valid text when updates end partway through a multibyte character.

Walkthrough

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/*	Adds PCRE2 and utf8proc integration, UTF-8 validation, Unicode regex utilities, and byte-level BPE encoding and decoding with optional NFC normalization.
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.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1a9a1

The reported JSON-output issue is fixed, and no actionable merge-blocking issue remains after normal checks.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 7.76% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 116 functions across 16 files. (1 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title identifies the main Qwen3 ASR change. It does not mention the forced aligner, but it remains concise and clearly related to the changeset.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly states that the pull request adds Qwen3 ASR and forced aligner models, which matches the changeset.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
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`:
- Around line 320-328: Before constructing raw from the decoded tokens, remove
at most three trailing bytes from the decoded text until it is valid UTF-8; then
use the trimmed text for ParseOutput and the result fields.

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• .gitignore
• CMakeLists.txt
• README.md
• THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md
• asr/qwen3/CMakeLists.txt
• asr/qwen3/README.md
• asr/qwen3/aligner_main.cpp
• asr/qwen3/forced_aligner.cpp
• asr/qwen3/forced_aligner.h
• asr/qwen3/main.cpp
• asr/qwen3/model_export/export_qwen3_asr.py
• asr/qwen3/model_export/validate_qwen3_asr.py
• asr/qwen3/qwen3.cpp
• asr/qwen3/qwen3.h
• asr/qwen3/requirements.txt
• asr/qwen3/runtime.h
• cmake/pcre2.cmake
• cmake/utf8proc.cmake
• common/io/CMakeLists.txt
• common/io/tokenizer.cpp
• common/io/tokenizer.h
• common/io/unicode_regex.cpp
• common/io/unicode_regex.h
• common/ort_session.cpp

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