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Falcon-Edge: A series of powerful, universal, fine-tunable 1.58bit language models.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

Subtitle-Aligned Fine-Tuning of Whisper for Swiss German ASR: Benchmark Contamination, Convention Mismatch, and an Honest Baseline at 25.6% WER (13.8% cWER)

arXiv:2606. 07608v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a systematic study of fine-tuning OpenAI's Whisper large-v3 for Swiss German ASR, using 1,367 hours of broadcast speech paired with Standard German subtitles as weak supervision.

By Felix Akeret
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 24

Do Audio Language Models Hear and Read Distinctive Features Alike?

The paper investigates whether audio language models encode phonetic features similarly when processing spoken versus written input. By comparing mean representations of minimal phoneme pairs across six models, seven features, and 15 languages, the study finds that only voicing in two Qwen2.5-Omni models shows a significant shared direction, and that the model family—not size—determines feature representation. The analysis uses cosine similarity against a random-pair reference to assess alignment across modalities.