The paper examines how multilingual medical adaptation affects the internal representations of Whisper ASR models. By comparing various fine‑tuning strategies—zero‑shot decoding, English‑only, German‑only, two‑stage EN→EN+DE, and direct EN+DE fine‑tuning—it shows that fine‑tuning significantly improves performance, with the best model varying by setting. Layer‑wise encoder analysis reveals that English medical fine‑tuning drives the main representation shift, while multilingual continuation largely preserves the adapted space, and that domain and language signals remain recoverable across layers.
By Souranil Kahali, Rituparna Bose, Abner Hernandez, Tomas Arias-Vergara, Andreas Maier, Ning Ma, Paula Andrea Perez-Toro
arXiv:2608. 04586v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved significant success in speech-to-text translation (S2TT).
By Yexing Du, Kaiyuan Liu, Youcheng Pan, Bo Yang, Chengpeng Fu, Yu Wang, Ming Liu
arXiv:2608. 04586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved significant success in speech-to-text translation (S2TT).
By Yexing Du, Kaiyuan Liu, Youcheng Pan, Bo Yang, Chengpeng Fu, Yu Wang, Ming Liu
arXiv:2606. 17826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in non-English clinical settings is challenged by multiscript variability, where the same term may appear in multiple valid orthographic forms.
By Jean Seo, Minkyu Kim, Jeonguk Lee, Jisoo Jung, Wooseok Han, Eunho Yang
arXiv:2608. 19981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present HealMed, an expert-reviewed benchmark for multilingual evaluation of large language models in medicine.
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