A GitHub Issue on OpenAI’s Whisper, which is a good speech-recognition and transcription model with support for a large number of languages. A lot of people use it. The issue: Complete silence is always hallucinated as “ترجمة نانسي قنقر” in Arabic which translates as “Translation by Nancy Qunqar” In the comments, people note that this class of error has been known for a while and there are equivalents or counterparts in other languages: I found a similar thing happens ...